“I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!”
Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun
Beneatha to Walter, Act III
A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
“I come here today to look across this world of threats to a world of peace. In that search we cannot expect any final triumph”
for new problems will always arise. We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems — for conformity is the jailor of freedom, and the enemy of growth. Nor can we expect to reach our goal by contrivance, by fiat or even by the wishes of all.
But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone. If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.
1961, UN speech
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "I come here today to look across this world of threats to a world of peace. In that search we cannot expect any final t…" by John F. Kennedy?
John F. Kennedy469
35th president of the United States of America 1917–1963Related quotes
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
"To the Indianapolis Clergy." The Iconoclast (Indianapolis, IN) (1883)
Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic
The Onassis Prize For Man and Mankind (1993)
Context: Today's world, as we all know, is faced with multiple threats. From whichever angle I look at this menace, I always come to the conclusion that salvation can only come through a profound awakening of man to his own personal responsibility, which is at the same time a global responsibility. Thus, the only way to save our world, as I see it, lies in a democracy that recalls its ancient Greek roots: democracy based on an integral human personality personally answering for the fate of the community.
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2001, Invasion of Afghanistan (October 2001)
Eric Garcetti (1971) American politician
Southern New Hampshire University College of Online & Continuing Education commencement address <br class="br">quoted by Cherise Leclerc of WMUR-TV https://www.wmur.com/article/rumored-2020-contender-la-mayor-eric-garcetti-speaks-at-snhu-graduation/20676696 (May 13, 2018) <br class="br">2018
Prem Rawat (1957) controversial spiritual leader
Undated <br class="br">Source: Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prem_Rawat.
Nachman of Breslov (1772–1810) Ukrainian rabbi
Hakol omrim sh'yesh olam hazeh v'olam haba. V'hine, ba'olam habah anu ma'aminim sh'yeshno, efshar sh'yesh olam hazeh b'eize olam, ki kan nir'a sh'hu ha'geheinom, ki kulam m'le'im yisurim gedolim tamid, v'amar she'ein nimtza shum olam hazeh klal.
אין שום יאוש בעולם כלל
Attributed
Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
"A Community of the Free" address at the The Foreign Policy Association NY, NY (23 June 1976); this is often paraphrased: We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
Pre-Presidency
Context: Sometimes we try to justify this unsavory business on the cynical ground that by rationing out the means of violence we can somehow control the world’s violence. The fact is that we cannot have it both ways. Can we be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war?