"I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration." ― Herbert Read Topic(s): Society More From Herbert Read "The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group." "I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority." "Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society." More In Society "The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy’s murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out."― Lance Morrow "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 "Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage."― Karen Armstrong