You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality — Sir Herbert Edward Read
We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge — Sir Herbert Edward Read
What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos. — Sir Herbert Edward Read
To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values — Sir Herbert Edward Read
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power — Sir Herbert Edward Read
The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit — Sir Herbert Edward Read
The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group. — Sir Herbert Edward Read
The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely — Sir Herbert Edward Read
Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past. — Sir Herbert Edward Read
It was nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term — Sir Herbert Edward Read
There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that marxism — Sir Herbert Edward Read
The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised. — Sir Herbert Edward Read
The principle of equity first came into evidence in roman jurisprudence and was derived by — Sir Herbert Edward Read
The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides — Sir Herbert Edward Read
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair. — Sir Herbert Edward Read
That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. — Sir Herbert Edward Read
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience – by a wider and deeper — Sir Herbert Edward Read
It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function — Sir Herbert Edward Read
Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals. — Sir Herbert Edward Read
In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence. — Sir Herbert Edward Read
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical. — Sir Herbert Edward Read
A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. — Sir Herbert Edward Read
But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture — Sir Herbert Edward Read
Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past. — Sir Herbert Edward Read
Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious — Sir Herbert Edward Read
I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to roman jurisprudence — Sir Herbert Edward Read
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. — Sir Herbert Edward Read
I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind. — Sir Herbert Edward Read