The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.