Quote by Herbert Read
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conce

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

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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. – Herbert Read

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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. – Herbert Read

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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. – Herbert Read

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To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts to the second, the Epistles to the third, the Revelation. – Philip Schaff

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I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It wont be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current. – Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion – theyre two words which are both… different. In spelling. – Eddie Izzard

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The point is, could God pass an examination in Theology? – Malcolm Muggeridge

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