The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.

Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. Only such people will so contrive and control those machines that their products are an enhancement of biological needs, and not a denial of them.

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.

I know of no better name than Anarchism.

It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.