J. William FulbrightThere is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.331Humanity
J. William FulbrightThe 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 own failures. ✨ Fulbrig… ▶344HopeReadingThought
J. William FulbrightWe have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.333Politics
J. William FulbrightEducation is a slow moving but powerful force377Politics
J. William FulbrightEducation is the best means-probably the only means-by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity about each other's behavior and intentions. It is the means by which Rus… ▶312LifeTruth
J. William FulbrightEducational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations323Humanity
J. William FulbrightThere are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to th… ▶379Politics
J. William FulbrightWith respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war with Japan, in August of that year. A number of consider… ▶368LifePoliticsReflection
J. William FulbrightEducation 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… ▶369Politics
J. William FulbrightThere is nothing obscure about the objectives of educational exchange. Its purpose is to acquaint Americans with the world as it is and to acquaint students and scholars from many… ▶3610Truth
J. William FulbrightWhat 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 … ▶3510HopeLifePhilosophy
J. William FulbrightLaw is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.284Politics
J. William FulbrightTo criticize one's country is to do it a service.... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism-a higher form of patriotism, I believe, than the familia… ▶3310Philosophy
J. William FulbrightIn the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.3310HumanityThought
J. William FulbrightThe preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail in directing the enormous power of human knowledge to th… ▶274HumanityPolitics
J. William FulbrightEducational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent behav… ▶241Humanity
J. William FulbrightOf all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always had great difficulty-since the initiation of the Fulbri… ▶296HopeTime
J. William FulbrightWe must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.296Thought
J. William FulbrightI 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 hon… ▶231ThoughtTruth
J. William FulbrightThere are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and the modern superpatriots. One is generous and humane, th… ▶231HopeHumanityHumor
J. William FulbrightThe junior Senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatred of uninformed and credulous people that he has started a prairie fire, which ne… ▶264HopeHumanityReading
J. William FulbrightIt is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply … ▶231Politics
J. William FulbrightFinally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby to increase the… ▶276Love
J. William FulbrightThe price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high. ✨ Fulbright: The Dissenter. Book by Haynes Bonner Johnson and Bernard M. Gwertzman, 1968.277HopeReading
J. William FulbrightAs a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations. ✨ J. William Fulbright (2011). The Ar… ▶267HopePolitics
J. William FulbrightThere has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.289Politics
J. William Fulbright....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 … ▶279Humanity
J. William FulbrightPower confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. ✨ J. William Fulbright (2011). The Arrogance of Power, p.16, Random House257HopePolitics
J. William FulbrightMaturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations.224Death
J. William FulbrightSome new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our children.202PhilosophyPoliticsTime
