The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.
The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.
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.
The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.