Quote by Herbert Read
I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbi

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration. – 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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Society
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It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one. – 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 dont think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think its a choice, but in fact, its in ones nature. The choice is whether one expresses ones nature truthfully or spends the rest of ones life lying about it. – Marlo Thomas

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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. – E. O. Wilson

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Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive. – Hugh Kingsmill

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After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society. – Eliot Spitzer

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Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt. – Eric Sevareid

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The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. – J. G. Ballard

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All commands from your lips are sweet…. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

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Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written. – Anon.