Bernard Lown

Do as much as possible for the patient, and as little as possible to the patient.

— Bernard Lown

In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our…

— Bernard Lown

Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.

— Bernard Lown

As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as "necessary" in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never be gotten…

— Bernard Lown

I see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential to make life unlivable…

— Bernard Lown

Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a…

— Bernard Lown

Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind.

— Bernard Lown

The International Declaration of Human Rights says the right to housing, health, education should be guaranteed to everyone. The moment these things…

— Bernard Lown

Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that…

— Bernard Lown

The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a…

— Bernard Lown

We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human…

— Bernard Lown

Nuclear weapons will not be gotten rid of until the United States confronts the magnitude of the horror, the tragedy, and the…

— Bernard Lown

We must convince each generation that they are but transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They…

— Bernard Lown