Civilization Quote by Jordan Peterson Download Open image “Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.” — Jordan Peterson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Communication Foundation Free Free speech Value Western civilization
Speech is protected in the U.S., and at the risk of repeating a hackneyed aphorism, free speech is worthless unless it applies to offensive… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech is only… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“When Lehman Brothers collapsed on September 15, 2008, and inaugurated the biggest crisis since the 1930s, there were no real alternatives to hand. No one had laid the groundwork. For years, intellectuals, journalists, and politicians had all firmly maintained that we’d reached the end of the age of “big narratives” and that it was time to trade in ideologies for… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share
The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Free speech may be a right, but only by using it as a force for good in the world do we make it a… — Ephraim Mirvis Copy Share Image
Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It's also for people who you think of as reprehensible. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Free speech is the guardian of individual autonomy, a shield that allows each person to shape their own beliefs and values independent of external… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“When Lehman Brothers collapsed on September 15, 2008, and inaugurated the biggest crisis since the 1930s, there were no real alternatives to hand. No one had laid the groundwork. For years, intellectuals, journalists, and politicians had all firmly maintained that we’d reached the end of the age of “big narratives” and that it was time to trade in ideologies for… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
We're so immaturely cynical as a culture. We're not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
To me, ideology is corrupt; it's a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail? — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
I suppose for a very long time I've been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
“The data on the economic utility of artists is really, really strong. Artists and entrepreneurs are the same people...and of course entrepreneurs are the… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
“The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of the most… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
