What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

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.

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

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.