Quote by Herbert Read
The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of socie

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality. – Herbert Read

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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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I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. – 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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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. – Oscar Wilde

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Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. – Greg Egan, “Distress”

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Society

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are. – John W. Gardner

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Society

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then youll have zero capitalism, zero competition – it would just be one giant company. – Serj Tankian

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There are many famous, sometimes brilliant and often very great quotations attributed to notable persons, which though false or incorrect, are usually improvements by anonymous requoters. – George Seldes

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Quotations

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking. – Malcolm De Chazal

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Women

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished. – Randy Neugebauer

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The more laws the more offenders. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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Justice & Law