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Quotes by Herbert Read
- The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.
- The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
- The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.
- The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.
- The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.
- The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
- These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.
- To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.
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