“Means are more important than ends in the civilized struggle for ideas. Our dreams may be the loveliest on earth, but if we wade through blood and terror to achieve them, we will arrive to find ourselves destroyed. Don't kill.” IfsMayMeanImportantIdeasEndsDreamEarthStruggleBloodAchieveTerrorDestroyedCivilizedOur DreamsWade Book:Dangerous Thoughts: Memoirs of a Russian Life Source: Dangerous Thoughts: Memoirs of a Russian Life
“I'm telling Palestinians don't use violence. We're going to use the civilized means of international law to achieve our goals, our independence, our freedom.” MeanUseLawGoalViolenceAchieveIndependenceInternationalCivilizedPalestinianInternational Law Author:Saeb Erekat
“In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history both suggest that this balance shifts in favor... of the government's ability to deal with conditions that threaten the national well-being.” WellsImportantReasonGovernmentOrderAbilityDealsAchieveConditionsBalanceTasksFavorsWell BeingCivilizedCivilized SocietyWartime Author:William Rehnquist
“In the so-called civilized world, children are physically, sexually and/or emotionally abused; they are the leaders of our future. When children are raised in such a hostile and violent environment, how can we hope for a harmonious future for all people of this world? In this light, the purpose of human life is to achieve our own spiritual evolution, to get rid of negativity, to establish harmony among our physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual quadrants, to learn to live in harmony within the family, community, nation, ..treating all of mankind as brothers and sisters.” PeopleWorldHumansChildrenLightSpiritualLife IsPurposeNationsCommunityLeaderEnvironmentAchieveMankindThis WorldEmotionalBrotherEvolutionIntellectualHarmonyRaisedViolentHuman LifeCivilizedOur FutureNegativityBrothers And SistersHostileHarmoniousSexuallySpiritual Evolution Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“[Walt] Whitman and [humanist educator John] Dewey tried to substitute hope for knowledge. They wanted to put shared utopian dreams - dreams of an ideally decent and civilized society - in the place of knowledge of God's Will, Moral Law, the Laws of History, or the Facts of Science.... As long as we have a functioning political left, we still have a chance to achieve our country, to make it the country of Whitman's and Dewey's dreams.” LongStillsCountryFactsDreamWantedLawPoliticalLeftChanceMoralAchieveGods WillOur CountryDecentCivilizedSubstitutesHumanistEducatorUtopianWaltKnowledge Of GodCivilized SocietyMoral Law Author:Richard Rorty
“In Western Europe, Turkey is regarded as uncivilized, so they can't come in into the European Union until they're civilized. I think it's the other way around. If you could achieve the level of civilization of, say, Turkish intelectuals, it would be quite an achievement.” IfsThinkingWayWould BeLevelsAchieveCivilizationAchievementEuropeUnionsWesternCivilizedTurkeysEuropean UnionTurkishWestern EuropeUncivilized Author:Noam Chomsky