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J. William Fulbright

J. William Fulbright

J. William Fulbright föddes den 9 april 1905 och dog den 9 februar 1995 - US Senator (Arkansas)
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Extrem nationalism och dogmatisk ideologi är en lyx som mänskligheten inte längre kan tillåta sig. Den måste använda sin energi på överlevnadens politik.

Nationalism och Stater

There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

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.

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

To avoid a nuclear war . . . you may think that's pretentious but that's its main goal.

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

It was never intended by the Founding Fathers that the President of the United States should be a ventriloquist's dummy sitting on the lap of Congress.

We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent.

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.

Vilket konstigt bild att se människan, homo sapiens, av gudomligt ursprung enligt vad vi berättas, allvarligt överväga att gå under jorden för att undkomma konsekvenserna av sin egen dårskap. Med litet visdom och förutseende behöver det sannerligen inte vara nödvändigt att överge livet i den friska luften och i värmen av solskenet. Vilken paradox om vår egen klokhet inom vetenskap skulle tvinga oss att leva under jorden med mullvadarna. (en 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 the sunlight. What a paradox if our own cleverness in science should force us to live underground with the 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 the sunlight. What a paradox if our own cleverness in science should force us to live underground with the moles.

The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.

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