Facing East

Famous quotes containing the words facing and/or east:

    “Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood—we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.”
    —Jean Rostand (1894–1977)

    “The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.”
    —Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)