Herbert Read
  • 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.

  • 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.