Bernard Lown Quotes

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• Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.
• I see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential to make life unlivable on this planet.
• 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…
• We must convince each generation that they are transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to…
• Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron,…
• In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.
• 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 the…
• Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.
• As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as "necessary" in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never be gotten rid of.
• The International Declaration of Human Rights says the right to housing, health, education should be guaranteed to everyone. The moment these things are provided, we…
• 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 of…
• Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind.
• Do as much as possible for the patient, and as little as possible to the patient.

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