Quote by Herbert Read
The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group. – Herbert Read

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

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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. – Herbert Read

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

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Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector. – David Rockefeller

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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you cant just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that its much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers. – Sam Donaldson

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But, actually, so many of the clerics that Ive met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society. – Rowan Atkinson

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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, youre still a rat. – Lily Tomlin

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Nature is neutral. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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