It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.
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Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.
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What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.
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If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
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The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.
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Man is everywhere still in chains.
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The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.
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The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.
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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.