Chesterton: The Rich Have Been Bribed By Luxury Into Corruption (Reprise)

"For the whole modern world is absolutely based on the assumption, not that the rich are necessary (which is tenable), but that the rich are trustworthy, which (for a Christian) is not tenable. You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man. The whole case for Christianity is that a man who is dependent upon the luxuries of this life is a corrupt man, spiritually corrupt, politically corrupt, financially corrupt."

The Eternal Revolution

Chapter VII

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

G.K. Chesterton: "The Anarchy of The Rich"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/gk-chesterton-anarchy-of-rich.html

G.K. Chesterton and Warren Buffett's Class War

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/01/gk-chesterton-and-warren-buffetts-class.html

G.K. Chesterton On Charity, Hope And Universal Salvation

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/chesterton-on-charity-and-universal.html

G.K. Chesterton Quotations... And More

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/chesterton-quotations.html

Pax On Both Houses: Compendium Of G.K. Chesterton Posts
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/10/pax-on-both-houses-gk-chesterton-posts.html

Chesterton: The Meaning Of Love

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/chesterton-meaning-of-love.html

G.K. Chesterton and Warren Buffett's Class War

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/01/gk-chesterton-and-warren-buffetts-class.html

Chesterton Viewed The Rich As "Oppressive" "Scum" And Failures

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/chesterton-considered-rich-oppressive.html

G.K. Chesterton Quotations... And More

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/chesterton-quotations.html

GK Chesterton's Universalism

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/gk-chestertons-universalism-by-edward-t.html

The Rich Are The Real Anarchists And Sully The World With Their Scum

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/chesterton-considered-rich-real.html

Chesterton Considered The Rich "Oppressive" "Scum" And "Failures"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/chesterton-considered-rich-oppressive.html

Chesterton: Many Books Denounce Lust But What Of Those That Encourage Greed?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/chesterton-plenty-of-books-denounce.html

Chesterton Calls For A New Kind Of Priesthood

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/chestertons-call-for-new-kind-of.html

Why Fairy Tales Are More Than True

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/chesterton-why-fairy-tales-are-more.html

Chesterton: Distributism Posits Need To Distribute Private Property Until Everyone Has Enough

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/chesterton-family-is-test-of-freedom.html