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. But first we must be able to bequeath to our children the most… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
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… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
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 Lown Copy Share Image
We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human rights and… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind. — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
Do as much as possible for the patient, and as little as possible to the patient. — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons will not be gotten rid of until the United States confronts the magnitude of the horror, the tragedy, and the long-term suffering… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks. — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
The International Declaration of Human Rights says the right to housing, health, education should be guaranteed to everyone. The moment these things are provided,… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
We must convince each generation that they are but transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
I see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential to make life unlivable on this… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care. — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
