“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 be perversely detached from human direction. Common too is the helplessness of the individual before alien… — 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
“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
“Man's alienation from man must lead in time to man's alienation from God” — Robert Nisbet Copy Share
“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
“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
