It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event.
Herbert ReadIf the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
Herbert ReadThe assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.
Herbert ReadMorality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.
Herbert Read