The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.
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The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.Herbert Read
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.
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And again I answer that it is only in the degree that the slave is emancipated and the personality differentiated that we can speak of progress.
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We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.
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The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.
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What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.
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