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Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.

Jacques Maritain

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Jacques Maritain
Age: 90 †
Born: 1882
Born: November 18
Died: 1973
Died: April 28
Diplomat
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Writer
Paris
France
World
Sacrifice
Regime
Civilization
Regimes
Technology
Industrial
Individual
Tends
Human
Offered
Humans
Gods
Kind
Victim
Unorganized
Make
Everywhere
Pauper

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