Differences Quote by John Foster Dulles

“A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence.”

John Foster Dulles

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The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests.

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The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.

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The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and…

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Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any act of Congress. It depends on the relations of a people to their God. It is the churches to which we must look to develop the resources for the great moral offensive that is required to make human…

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The United Nations represents not a final stage in the development of world order, but only a primitive stage. Therefore its primary task is…

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Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.

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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

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The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires…

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I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used…

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Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs.

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Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth.

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In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace. This involves the development to a high degree of the nation-hero, nation-villain ideology and the arousing of the population to a sense of sacrifice.…

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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of…

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I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,…

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If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract…

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But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress…

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There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt - until recently... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor,…

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Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits.

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It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property… But if the productive activity of the multitude can be…

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There are those who open their hearts to others...who never think twice about giving of themselves. They are the wonderful warmhearted people who make…

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