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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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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My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success. – 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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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel. – Rudolf Arnheim

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Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society. – Phyllis Schlafly

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Society

There couldnt be a society of people who didnt dream. Theyd be dead in two weeks. – William S. Burroughs

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All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. Its called competition. And competition is antagonism. – Edward Bond

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Society

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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isnt alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere. – Flora Lewis

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