It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.

It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.

The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss into which mankind can fall to annihilation.

Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.

the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

[To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of change and set the processes of modernization in motion. Education brought not only the idea of equality but also another belief which we used to take for granted in the West-the idea of progress, the idea that science and technology can be used to better human conditions. In ancient society, men tended to believe themselves fortunate if tomorrow was not worse than today and anyway, there was little they could do about it.

Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.