Herbert Read's Quotes

Herbert Read's Quotes 18

My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline...

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

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

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The farther a society progresses the more clearly the individual becomes the...

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

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the...

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It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic...

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether...

I call religion a natural authority but it has usually been conceived as a...

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new...

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It is already clear after twenty years of socialism in Russia that if you...

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its...

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to...

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not...

The slave may be happy but happiness is not enough.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and...

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality...

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief...