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Lester B Pearson Quotes
A great gulf, however, has been opened between mans material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any mans activity or interests. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
During my lifetime greater and more spectacular progress has been made in the physical sciences than in many centuries that preceded it. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
It is already difficult to realize that a mere twenty years ago poverty was taken almost for granted over most of the earths surface. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
Nevertheless, defense by power as a first obligation on a state has to be considered in relation to things other than economics. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
Our problem, then, so easy to state, so hard to solve, is how to bring about a creative peace and a security which will have a strong foundation. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because mans words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
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