Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
BERNARD BARUCHLet us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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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.
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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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Never follow the crowd.
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Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
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Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…
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So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.
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None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. … The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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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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I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
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