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Sunday, September 7, 2008

A System of Selfishness

I content myself with the fact that our general system of trade is a system of selfishness, is not dictated by the high sentiments of human nature, much less by the sentiments of love and heroism, but is a system of distrust, not of giving but of taking advantage.
-Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End, 323
Posted by Ashley at 8:54 AM
Labels: Author: Joshua Ferris, Book: Then We Came to the End (Joshua Ferris), Topic: Humanity, Topic: Trade

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