The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
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Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.Herbert Read
The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.
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The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.
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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.
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It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.
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I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.
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