Herbert Read

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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These are some quotes by English author Herbert Read Poet, who lived between 1893 and 1968.

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

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The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

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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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