Quote of Charles de Gaulle - At the root of our civilization...
Biography - Charles de Gaulle:
French army officer and statesman.
Born: 1890 - Died: 1970
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1890 - Died: 1970
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
Translation
(French)
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Quotes about thought:
Quotes about freedom:
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Article I – Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be founded only on the common good.
Quotes for: opinion
Though men be much governed by interest; yet even interest itself, and all human affairs, are entirely governed by opinion.
Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. And in this it is not likely that all are mistaken: the conviction is rather to be held as testifying that the power of judging aright and of distinguishing truth from error, which is properly what is called good sense or reason, is by nature equal in all men; and that the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely from this, that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects. For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
Article X – No one may be disturbed for his opinions, even religious ones, provided that their manifestation does not trouble the public order established by the law.
Quotes about work:
Quotes for: Civilization
By the mere fact that he forms part of an organised crowd, a man descends several rungs in the ladder of civilisation.
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit – to the ‚conquest‘ of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.
Quotes for: belief
The greatest disorder of the mind is to believe certain things because we want them to be such and not because we have seen what they are.
Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it.
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