Best quotes by Herbert Read on Society

Checkout quotes by Herbert Read on Society

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

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

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

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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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