The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.

Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

It will be a gay world. There will be lights everywhere except in the minds of men, and the fall of the last civilization will not be heard above the din.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.