Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
Interpretation
Law provides the necessary structure for societies to function and for countries to interact peacefully.
In this quote, J. William Fulbright emphasizes the critical role of law in maintaining social stability and order, not only within individual societies but also in the broader context of international relations. He suggests that without a solid legal framework, chaos and conflict are likely to prevail, both domestically and among nations, highlighting the importance of law as a stabilizing force.
In practice
When discussing governance in a political science class.
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.
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.
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.
Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.
With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.
You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.
Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside a house, breathing quietly, waiting until everyone’s asleep. I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze, so too is our body. Everywhere you turn there’s darkness, and a blind spot. Everywhere you find silent hints, everywhere a surprise is waiting for you.
I titled the book 'Homo Deus' because we really are becoming gods in the most literal sense possible. We are acquiring abilities that have always been thought to be divine abilities - in particular, the ability to create life. And we can do with that whatever we want.
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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