Adoption Quote by George F. Kennan

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work…

— Frank Herbert

Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.

— Thomas Steven Molnar

I absolutely do believe that we need to not be so myopic. We ought to throw open widely the windows on the world in…

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of…

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Many of us will endure a lifetime following others. Institutionalisation suits many but not all. Some of us thrive beyond those boundaries.

— Ben Fogle

“To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners”

— Jonathan Chamberlain Williams

If we can change our priorities, achieve balance and understanding in our roles as human beings in a complex world, the coming era can…

— Sigurd F. Olson

We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No other society in the history of the world has searched so long for a meaningful cultural identity and failed in its quest as…

— Lester D. Langley

We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We need some…

— Paul Kurtz

Our great civilization, here in America and across the civilized world has come upon a moment of reckoning.

— Donald Trump

“People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it…

— Frank Herbert