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Quote from Gilbert Keith Chesterton,


"It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness."


By:

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (more quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton or books by/about Gilbert Keith Chesterton)


(1874-1936) British essayist, critic, poet, and novelist

Source:

Illustrated London News, Aug 9, 1924

Categories:

Capitalism, Economics, Greed

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