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What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos. – Herbert Read

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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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The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals – its philosophers, its poets and its artists. – Herbert Read

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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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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse. – Doris Lessing

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There are many things that people do happily that I cant imagine why they would do it… But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, Im not critical of people individually. We are who we are. – Ian MacKaye

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Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon. – Octavio Paz

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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

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