Quotes by : Herbert Read

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

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

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth....

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

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

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

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values -....

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic....

You cannot impose a culture from the top--it must come from under. It grows out of the soil, out of the....