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Max Weber The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Then the intensity of the search for the Kingdom of God commenced gradually to pass over into sober economic virtue; the religious roots died out slowly, giving way to utilitarian worldliness. Then, the isolated economic man takes the place of the lonely spiritual search for the Kingdom of heaven of Bunyan's pilgrim, hurrying through the market-place of Vanity. p.176

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Ge, Nikolai Nikolaevich. Calvary (Golgotha). 1893. Oil on canvas, 222.4 × 191.6 cm. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

Leo Tolstoy The Kingdom of God Is Within You

"State authority, even if it clears away old injustices, always creates new ones, just because it is state authority. It cannot act otherwise, for it is based on violence, and violence is the negation of love."

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