Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.
BERNARD BARUCHLet us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
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We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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Never follow the crowd.
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
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Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
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I never lost money by turning a profit.
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You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.
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Gold has worked down from Alexander’s time… When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
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