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Herbert Read

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"The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair."

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"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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"Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence."

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"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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"The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough."

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"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."

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"The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair."

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"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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"Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence."

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"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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"The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough."

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"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."

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"I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature."

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"The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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

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"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."

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"It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved."

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"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."

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

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"The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group."

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

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

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"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."

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"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."

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"My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success."

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"My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success."

-Herbert Read

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