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We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals – its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.
To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values – above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience – by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.