"The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair."
-Herbert Read
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"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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"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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"I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority."
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"The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough."
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"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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"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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