UN General Assembly
1948

The imposition of any ideology, on any people, by whatever means, was both impossible and dangerous. People would have to learn again, in the middle of the twentieth century, what the European peoples had learned in the middle of the seventeenth century: tolerance. Differences between churches naturally continued to exist and there were real differences of opinion which peoples could evaluate according to their own lights. But civilized society had learned that it was possible to worship God in different ways, and, just as it was everybody’s duty to respect the religious practices of others, so also should it be possible to admit different economic and social systems.