It's a symptom of the commodification of the person. What is it the New Testament says -- 'You are not your own you were bought with a price.' Well, in this generation we believe we are our own, and so we can commodify ourselves, we can use ourselves as possessions of ourselves 'I own myself, it's my body.' And what is more -- 'I own my children, certainly in terms of design and the procreative process. Therefore, I can kill I can give life. I meet out weal and woe. I'm God.' Taking life and making life become two subsets of the same thing.
Quotes about weal (8 Quotes)
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
So man's insanity is heaven's sense and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.
Farewell if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky.
I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.
It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal.
Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe--the open sesame to every soul.
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.