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"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 on Society

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  • "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Society

  • "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

    Robert A. Heinlein on Society

  • "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

    Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society

  • "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

    Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society

  • "There is more to life than increasing its speed."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Society

More quotes by Herbert Read

  • "The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair."

  • "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."

  • "Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence."

  • "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."

  • "The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough."

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