I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

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.

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.