Herbert Read

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The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

Herbert Read

attitude

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

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equality

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

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experience

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

Herbert Read

freedom

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

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happiness

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.

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intelligence

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

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nature

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

Herbert Read

positive

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.

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power

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.

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religion

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