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.

Art is always the index of social vitality, the moving finger that records the destiny of a civilization. A wise statesman should keep an anxious eye on this graph, for it is more significant than a decline in exports or a fall in the value of a nation's currency.

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

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

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