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Religion Quotes by Herbert Read
- I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
- Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.
- It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will…
- 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…
- Man is everywhere still in chains. Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.
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