Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.
Jeane KirkpatrickSociety has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable.
Jeane KirkpatrickPower ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.
Jeane KirkpatrickI don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We ought to be a little more clear-cut about this than we usually are. They were political activists on behalf of the Frente and somebody who is using violence to oppose the Frente killed them.
Jeane Kirkpatrick