Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than l...eave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain "above the fray" only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in so...cial unrest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens--and r...eal diseases are useful material.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you shall not deal with them as a creditor; you shall not exact interest fr...om them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature; and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, ...and, like the grave, cries, "Give, give!" The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government. You tell me of degrees of perfection to which human nature is capable of arriving, and I believe it, but at the same time lament that our admiration should arise from the scarcity of the instances.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would make... money by it in this life, in the thirteenth they trusted their money to the Queen of Heaven because of their belief in her power to repay it with interest in the life to come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nature seems to have taken a particular Care to disseminate her Blessings among the different Regions of the World, with an Eye to... this mutual Intercourse and Traffick among Mankind, that the Natives of the several Parts of the Globe might have a kind of Dependance [sic] upon one another, and be united together by their common Interest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »