“Religion always poses a problem for capitalism because, by saying that some things are sacred, it insists that not everything is saleable.”

Source: Probe retired generals, Catholic Bishop urges Jonathan https://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/05/probe-retired-generals-catholic-bishop-urges-jonathan/ (21 May 2012)

Expression and Meaning, p. 31, Cambridge University Press (1979).

2009, "The nation is waiting for a strong, experienced leader", 2009
Context: You tell me, since Independence, in the field of justice delivery, has so much work been accomplished anywhere? But, for news traders, these things perhaps are not saleable. Now you tell me if these things are pro-poor or not.

Referring to the famous passage in Isaiah 55:8 http://bible.cc/isaiah/55-8.htm where YHWH speaks of the nature of mortal and immortal qualities and thoughts, in a NOW interview (4 September 2004) http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript315_full.html <br class="br">Context: &quot;My thoughts are not your thoughts. For as high as the heavens are the above the earth, so are my thoughts above your thoughts, my ways above your ways.&quot; … should be written over every … pulpit. … Because so often we think that God&#x27;s ways are our ways. God&#x27;s thoughts are our thoughts. And we created God in our own image and likeness saying, &quot;God approves of this. God forbids that. God desires the other.&quot;<br>This is where some of the worst atrocities of religion have come from. Because people have used [it] — to give a sacred seal of a divine approval to some of their most worst hatreds, loathings, and fears. Whereas to the great theologians — what I found when I was studying for A History Of God — the great theologians in all three of the monotheistic religions, Jewish, Christian, Muslim — all insisted that yes, God was personal. But God went beyond the personal.<br>You shouldn&#x27;t speak glibly about God … in Judaism you may not speak God&#x27;s name as a reminder that any human expression of the divine is likely to be so limited as to be blasphemous. But God should challenge your assumptions … you shouldn&#x27;t imagine you&#x27;ve got Him in your pocket.

Im Kapitalismus ist eine Religion zu erblicken, d.h. der Kapitalismus dient essentiell der Befriedigung derselben Sorgen, Qualen, Unruhen, auf die ehemals die so genannten Religionen Antwort gaben.
Translated by Rodney Livingstone in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1 (Harvard: 1996)
Capitalism as Religion (1921)

&quot;Christianity and Common Sense&quot; http://www.ftarchives.net/foote/flowers/114commonsense.htm, p. 114 <br class="br">Flowers of Freethought (1893)

Preface to the Charter of Liberties and Frame of Government of the Province of Pennsylvania in America (5 May 1682).
Frame of Government (1682)

Source: The Worldly Philosophers (1953), Chapter VII, The Underworld of Economics, p. 188
Context: The book was called Imperialism; it was a devastating volume. For here was the most important and searing criticism which had ever been levied against the profit system. The worst that Marx had claimed was that the system would destroy itself; what Hobson suggested was that it might destroy the world. He saw the process of imperialism as a relentless and restless tendency of capitalism to rescue itself from a self-imposed dilemma, a tendency that necessarily involved foreign commercial conquest and that thereby inescapably involved a constant risk of war. No more profound moral indictment of capitalism had ever been posed.