Charles Alexander Eastman Quotes
Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?Charles Alexander Eastman
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We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.
E. O. Wilson -
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson -
There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'
Nathan Myhrvold -
Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
Patrick White -
I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
D. H. Lawrence
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The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln -
The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.
Wassily Kandinsky -
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Victor Hugo -
Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
Walter Winchell
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
Justice is merely incidental to law and order.
J. Edgar Hoover -
To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water. The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.
C. V. Raman -
I believe mobile technology has a much broader role to play. It could solve some of the biggest problems on earth.
Hans Vestberg -
What is that sound high in the air Murmur of maternal lamentation Who are those hooded hordes swarming Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth Ringed by the flat horizon only What is the city over the mountains Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air Falling towers Jerusalem Athens Alexandria Vienna London Unreal
T. S. Eliot
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Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.
Daniel Morgan -
Because of the revolution of the Earth upon its axis, a new degree of the zodiac rises every four minutes, and thus even the horoscopes of twins may differ considerably.
Max Heindel -
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
Aristotle -
Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.
Cameron Russell -
Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?
Charles Alexander Eastman