Quote by Herbert Read
It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the a

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. – Herbert Read

Other quotes by Herbert Read

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

Category:
Religion
Read Quote

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

Category:
Society
Read Quote

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience – by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. – Herbert Read

Category:
Experience
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Society
category

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society. – Constance Baker Motley

Category:
Society

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society… It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff. – Stephen Harper

Category:
Society

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in. – Annie Lennox

Category:
Society

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon well need a new definition. – Alvin Toffler

Category:
Society

Random Quotes

One failure is worth seven and a half successes. – Eli Khamarov

Category:
Failure

I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever cause he believed in God. – James Brown

Category:
God

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied. – Charles Caleb Colton

Category:
Health

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility. – Gerald W. Johnson

Category:
Responsibility