Herbert Read Society Quotes

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What did Herbert Read say about Society?

Herbert Read has written many quotes about Society. E.g.,

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

What are the top most famous Society quotes by Herbert Read?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Society by Herbert Read.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.
  • The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.
  • I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.
  • What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.