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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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The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair. – Herbert Read

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Attitude
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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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Religion
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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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Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe. – John Andrew Holmes

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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. – Simone Weil

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Society

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. – James A. Baldwin

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Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things. – Kesha

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We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all. – John Hope Franklin

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How can you explain that you need to know that the trees are still there, and the hills and the sky? Anyone knows they are. How can you say it is time your pulse responded to another rhythm, the rhythm of the day and the season instead of the hour and the minute? No, you cannot explain. So you walk. – Author unknown, from New York Times editorial, “The Walk,” 25 October 1967

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Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. – Friedrich Schiller

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