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