Walter Benjamin: A religion may be discerned in capitalism—that is to say, capitalism serves essentially to allay the same anxieties, tor

A religion may be discerned in capitalism—that is to say, capitalism serves esse — Walter Benjamin

A religion may be discerned in capitalism—that is to say, capitalism serves essentially to allay the same anxieties, torments, and disturbances to which the so-called religions offered answers.

Walter Benjamin

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Compassion in the highest degree is the divinest form of religion. — Alice Meynell
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