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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.

Bernard Baruch

No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
BERNARD BARUCH

Anger Humiliate Men
Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
BERNARD BARUCH

Fall Higher Insurance Money Pension Unemployment
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
BERNARD BARUCH

Cold Shooting War
The path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom – the clothing of the grave – that some people believe she is already fitted for.
BERNARD BARUCH

Ago Clothes Grave Hundred People Some Years Young
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
BERNARD BARUCH

Imagination Inspirational Intelligence
The stock market is people.
BERNARD BARUCH

Market People Stock
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.
BERNARD BARUCH

Communism Government Important Political Struggle
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.
BERNARD BARUCH

Disarmament Past Peace Years
Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
BERNARD BARUCH

Heart Soul Whatever
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
BERNARD BARUCH

Age Birthday Years
Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.
BERNARD BARUCH

Cities Industries Land Roots Trees
A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
BERNARD BARUCH

Ark Country Dangerous Favor Future Repudiate
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
BERNARD BARUCH

Character Technology Thinking
“The king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly.” My philosophy is like that man’s. I take the long-range view.
BERNARD BARUCH

Die Furthermore Horse King Learn Philosophy
Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
BERNARD BARUCH

Deceive Destruction Ourselves Peace
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.
BERNARD BARUCH

Men Mistake Motivation Prove Skill

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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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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