J. William Fulbright Quotes:
Ocupation: Former United States Senator
Life: April 9, 1905 - February 9, 1995
Birthday: April 9
Death: February 9
Like medieval theologians we had a philosophy that explained everything to us in advance, and everything that did not fit could be readily identified as a fraud or a lie or an illusion... The perniciousness of the anti-Communist ideology of the Truman Doctrine arises not from any patent falsehood but from its distortion and simplification of reality, from its universalization and its elevation to the status of a revealed truth.
topic: Lying, Philosophy, Reality, Truman, Anti Communist
