The only possible innocence that remains to me, while I pay forced tribute to the system, while I profit by its corrupting influences and agencies, w… - George Davis Herron

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.

Civilization no longer represents the conscience of the individuals who must find therein their work. The facts and forces which now organize industry and so-called justice, violate the best instincts of mankind.

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