Quote by Herbert Read
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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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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I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. – Herbert Read

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Religion
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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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Society
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I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them. – Samantha Morton

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Society

I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. Its their work that Im supporting. So its not me doing it. – George Soros

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Society

Theres an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. – Doris Lessing

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Society

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

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