"What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos." ― Herbert Read Topic(s): Society More From 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." "The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair." "Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience – by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence." More In Society "Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive."― Hugh Kingsmill "The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."― John Stuart Mill "I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society."― Daisaku Ikeda