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Category: Barry Unsworth

Only way to live here is day by day, same as anywhere.

Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way

I glimpsed the man’s face with the shine of death on it. They laid him down there in the open. They had brought him there to be close to his death, I understood this also at the same moment. For who would wish to see a companion gasp his last on a jolting cart? We desire to keep the dying and the newly dead close before our eyes so as to give them full meed of pity. Our Lord was brought down to be pitied, on the Cross He was too far away.

christ, dying, pity

Money is sacred as everyone knows… So then must be the hunger for it and the means we use to obtain it. Once a man is in debt he becomes a flesh and blood form of money, a walking investment. You can do what you like with him, you can work him to death or you can sell him. This cannot be called cruelty or greed because we are seeking only to recover our investment and that is a sacred duty.

capitalism, christianity, debt, slavery

We desire to keep the dying and the newly dead close before our eyes so as to give them full need of pity. Our Lord was brought down to be pitied, on the Cross He was too far away.

Doubt is the ally of hope, not its enemy, and together they made all the blessing he had.

The successful cannot be unhappy — it was a contradiction in terms.

happiness, materialism, money, satirical, success

It is everyone’s bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin’ you try to make it into four shillin’ . . . there is no end to it.

capitalism, free-enterprise, money

The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the former . . .

belief, god, morality, power

The kind of truth that can be asserted by argument had lost all glamour, all lustre, for him, seeming no more now than another aspect of that ancient urge – much older than the desire for truth – to command attention, dominate one’s fellows.

argument, truth

We desire to keep the dying and the newly dead close before our eyes so as to give them full need of pity. Our Lord was brought down to be pitied, on the Cross He was too far away.

It is everyone’s bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin’ you try to make it into four shillin’ . . . there is no end to it.

capitalism, free-enterprise, money