A Quote by Harry Belafonte

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience.

Harry Belafonte

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Anchor Artists Civilization Compass Conscience Gatekeepers Humanity Truth

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Harry Belafonte
American - Musician
Born: March 1, 1927

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth.

Paul Robeson

Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass.

Suzy Kassem

Truth lies in a small compass! The Aristotelians say, all truth is contained in Aristotle, in one place or another. Galileo makes Simplicius say so, but shows the absurdity of that speech by answering all truth is contained in a lesser compass, namely, in the alphabet.

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.

Paul Robeson

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth.

Pierre Bayle

Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of its limitations and it's unworthiness to become the ideal civilization of the world.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Conscience is a man's compass.

Vincent Van Gogh

Conscience, as a mentor, the guide and compass of every act, leads ever to happiness. When the individual can stay alone with his or her conscience and get its approval, without knowing force or specious knowledge, then he or she begins to know what real happiness is.

William George Jordan

I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake.

Pablo Picasso

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

Ada Cambridge

She was the light of our lives, our anchor, compass and vision.

Ralph Nader

The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Stephen Covey

I often think of it this way: The 21st century is going to be a war on the attention of humanity. Where civilization focuses its attention, I mean, that's what defines what the civilization cares about.