Bernard Lown on conspiracy
Bernard Lown15 quotes“Some of life’s biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.”
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Do as much as possible for the patient, and as little as possible to the patient.
Bernard LownBernard Lown We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human rights and hard-won civil liberties.
Bernard LownBernard Lown The International Declaration of Human Rights says the right to housing, health, education should be guaranteed to everyone.
Bernard LownBernard Lown As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as “necessary” in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never be gotten rid of.
Bernard LownBernard Lown We must convince each generation that they are but transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to doom generations yet unborn. They are not at liberty to erase humanity’s past nor dim its future.
Bernard LownBernard Lown Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real.
Bernard LownBernard Lown Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a poet favored by Alfred Nobel, captured the stark essence of a post-nuclear world in his poem Darkness.
Bernard LownBernard Lown I see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential to make life unlivable on this planet.
Bernard LownBernard Lown But first we must be able to bequeath to our children the most fundamental of all rights, which preconditions all others; the right to survival.
Bernard LownBernard Lown Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind.
Bernard LownBernard Lown The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress.
Bernard LownBernard Lown Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.
Bernard LownBernard Lown General acceptance of a practice becomes the proof of its validity, though it lacks all other merit.
Bernard LownBernard Lown The moment these things are provided, we will have a different world order and nuclear weapons will become less of a threat.
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Jojo MoyesJojo Moyes Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
Marquis de SadeMarquis de Sade The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
Gore VidalGore Vidal They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole.
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