Finally, 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 chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of knowledge, reason, and compassion in fostering global peace and friendship among nations.
J. William Fulbright's quote reflects the belief that through the promotion of knowledge, reason, and compassion, nations can overcome conflicts and misunderstandings. By fostering these virtues in world affairs, he suggests that it becomes more likely for countries to coexist harmoniously, leading to lasting peace and friendship.
In practice
This quote could be used during a peace summit to emphasize the need for dialogue.
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.
The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations.
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.
If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.
I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.
We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country.
Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.
If thou canst but thither, There grows the flower of Peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress and thy ease.
In the age when the atom has been split, the moon encircled, diseases conquered, is disarmament so difficult a matter that it must remain a distant dream?
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