“In Protestantism there has been a persistent belief that to externalize religion is to degrade it. Only in the privacy of the individual soul can religion remain pure. There has been little sympathy for the communal, sacramental, and disciplinary aspects… — Robert Nisbet Copy Share Image
“In Protestantism there has been a persistent belief that to externalize religion is to degrade it. Only in the privacy of the individual soul… — Robert Nisbet Copy Share Image
“Equality has a built-in revolutionary force lacking in such ideas as justice or liberty. For once the ideal of equality becomes uppermost, it can… — Robert Nisbet Copy Share Image
“Man's alienation from man must lead in time to man's alienation from God” — Robert Nisbet Copy Share Image
“The notion of an impersonal, even hostile society is common--a society in which all actions and motives seem to have equal value and to… — Robert Nisbet Copy Share Image
“It has become steadily clearer to me that alienation is one of the determining realities of the contemporary age. . . By alienation I… — Robert Nisbet Copy Share Image