Today continuing poverty and distress ar... | Lester B. Pearson

Today War

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

Quote of the Day

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

- Jack Nicholson

Other quotes by Lester B. Pearson

War

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

Peace Will

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

Today Power

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

Ideals Change World People

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

War Now Man

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

Politics

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

- Lester B. Pearson

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