George D. Herron: Quotes about life

George D. Herron was American clergyman, writer and activist. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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“There are no honest goods to buy or to sell; adulterated foods, shoddy manufacture of all that we wear, the underpaid labor and consumed life that make every garment a texture of falsehood, the hideous competitive war that slays its millions where swords and cannons slay their tens, all unite to baffle and mock the efforts of the awakened conscience at every turn, and make the industrial system seem like the triumph of hell and madness on the earth. Only by a sort of terrible daily denial of his spiritual self, a crucifixion of the principles by which he longs to organize his life, can a man wrest a stained and insecure livelihood from this terrible war for bread which we call industry.”

George D. Herron

Source: Between Caesar and Jesus (1899), p. 26-27

Life , War , Food , Hell

“Whoever says that a man can live the Christian life, while at the same time successfully participating in the present order of things, is either profound in the lack of knowledge, or else he deliberately lies.”

George D. Herron

Source: Between Caesar and Jesus (1899), p. 26

Life , Knowledge , Time

“Without regard to his conscience, the economic system involves a man in the guilt of the moral and physical death of his brothers: their blood cries to him from the adulterated and monopolized foods he eats; from the sweat-shop clothes he wears; from his educational advantages, his special privileges, his social opportunities. … In fine, civilization denies to man that highest of all rights — the right to live a guiltless life, the right to do right.”

George D. Herron

Source: Between Caesar and Jesus (1899), p. 20

Life , Death , Education , Food

“All that is good in civilization must be for the equal use of all, in order that each man may make his life most worthwhile to the common life and to himself.”

George D. Herron

Source: Between Caesar and Jesus (1899), p. 15

Life

“It is only the densest ethical ignorance that talks about a "Christian business" life; for business is now intrinsically evil.”

George D. Herron

Source: Between Caesar and Jesus (1899), p. 26

Life , Business , Evil

“I can no longer clothe myself, whether in good clothes or cheap, without the likelihood that my clothes are made under sweat-shop conditions. … If I send my students to pursue further study upon subjects to which I have introduced them, I must send them to receive the benefits of endowments from the hands of a besotted philanthropy, drunken and sated with the wine of life pressed from the crushed and exhausted millions who feed the modern industrial wine press.”

George D. Herron

Source: Between Caesar and Jesus (1899), pp. 23-24

Life , Study , Wine , Clothes

“The hope of the social reformer is to open wide the gates of opportunity, so that every creature, from the least to the greatest, may make his life a moral adventure and a joy, and exhaust his possibilities in the thing he can best do.”

George D. Herron

Source: Between Caesar and Jesus (1899), p. 15

Life , Hope , Joy