Herbert Read Quotes

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true. - Herbert Read

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

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization. - Herbert Read

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

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

There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country. - Herbert Read

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

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

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing. - Herbert Read

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