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 characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
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To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.
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The earliest records of our species point to group organizations - the primitive horde, nomadic tribes, settlements, communities, cities, nations.
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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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What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.
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