Khakain

A message consisting of a set of ten guidelines or principles is engraved on the Georgia Guidestones in eight different languages, one language on each face of the four large upright stones. Moving clockwise around the structure from due north, these languages are: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, ancient Chinese, and Russian. The message in English reads:

    Maintain humanity under 500,000,000
    In perpetual balance with nature

    Guide reproduction wisely —
    Improving fitness and diversity

    Unite humanity with a living
    New language

    Rule passion — faith — tradition
    And all things
    With tempered reason

    Protect people and nations
    With fair laws and just courts

    Let all nations rule internally
    Resolving external disputes
    In a world court

    Avoid petty laws and useless
    officials

    Balance personal rights with
    Social duties.

    Prize truth — beauty — love —
    Seeking harmony with the
    Infinite

    Be not a cancer on the earth —
    Leave room for nature —
    Leave room for nature