"Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety."

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Source : Stephen Young (2003). “Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good”, p.9, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Stephen Young

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“If I'd been trying to kill him, he'd be dead.”
“Sometimes we become so focused on the finish line, that we fail to find joy in the journey.”
“Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'”
“Truth is merely common sense, say the naive realist. Really? Then where, precisely, is the location of--a rainbow? In the air? In the eye? In between? Or somewhere else?”
“Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.”
“Monastic vows rest on the false assumption that there is a special calling, a vocation, to which superior Christians are invited to observe the counsels of perfection while ordinary Christians fulfill only the commands; but there simply is no special religious vocation since the call of God comes to each at the common tasks.”
“Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.”
“The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.”

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