William Fulbright
William Fulbright
James William Fulbrightwas a United States Senator representing Arkansas from January 1945 until his resignation in December 1974...
men thinking differences
I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
men air moles
What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences of his own folly. With a little wisdom and foresight, surely it is not yet necessary to forsake life in the fresh air and in the warmth of sunlight. What a paradox if our own cleverness in science should force us to live underground with the moles.
liars men indulge-in
When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. It has no apparatus to deal with the boor, the liar, the lout, and the antidemocrat in general.
educational men empathy
International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.
loyalty men too-much
To ask for overt renunciation of a cherished doctrine is to expect too much of human nature. Men do not repudiate the doctrines and dogmas to which they have sworn their loyalty. Instead they rationalize, revise, and re-interpret them to meet new needs and new circumstances, all the while protesting that their heresy is the purest orthodoxy.
men world inevitable
There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
educational struggle men
....Man's struggle to be rational about himself, about his relationship to his own society and to other peoples and nations involves a constant search for understanding among all peoples and all cultures-a search that can only be effective when learning is pursued on a worldwide basis.
acts against committed men noble
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
cannot cultural economic fear society survive vietnamese
What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.
freedom democracy dissent
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
unions done excuse
The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
order law essentials
Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
war government vietnam
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.
strong powerful moving
Education is a slow-moving but powerful force. It may not be fast enough or strong enough to save us from catastrophe, but it is the strongest force available for that purpose and in its proper place, therefore, is not at the periphery, but at the center of international relations.