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Quotes from Nobel Peace Prize acceptance — Bernard Lown

1921–2021 Lithuania

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We recognise that before abolition can become a reality, the nuclear arms race must be halted.

Nobel Peace Prize acceptance (1985)

May we learn from barbaric and bloody deeds of the twentieth century and bestow the gift of peace to the next millennium.

Nobel Peace Prize acceptance (1985)

Summits like those in Geneva promote hope. But hope without action is hopeless.

Nobel Peace Prize acceptance (1985)

We physicians who shepherd human life from birth to death have a moral imperative to resist with all our being the drift toward the brink. The threatened inhabitants on this fragile planet must speak out for those yet unborn, for posterity has no lobby with politicians.

Nobel Peace Prize acceptance (1985)

We physicians protest the outrage of holding the entire world hostage. We protest the moral obscenity that each of us is being continuously targeted for extinction. We protest the ongoing increase in overkill.

Nobel Peace Prize acceptance (1985)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bernard Lown (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.