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.

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.

You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.

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.

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