Herbert Read

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of…

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art…

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely…

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the…

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such…

My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even…

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

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new…

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the…

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society…

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration…

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above…

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

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural…

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman…