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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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

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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. – Herbert Read

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How many of you have broken no laws this month? Thats the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee – with physics and mathematics, not with laws – that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications. – John Gilmore

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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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In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. – Karl Marx

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I dont believe that in our society that we should have guns. – Ed Koch

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