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The human mind finds it difficult to comprehend the figure of 2,000 million victims.
Tragedy and Triumph of Reason (1985)
Cooperation is the road to increased well-being of peoples and flourishing life.
Nobel Peace prize acceptance speech (1985)
If I am Chernenko's doctor and if I am here, then Chernenko is well because a doctor should be with his patient.
For us, physicians, life is the aim of our work and each death is a tragedy.
Tragedy and Triumph of Reason (1985)
Confrontation is the road to war, destruction and end of civilization.
Nobel Peace prize acceptance speech (1985)
Our professional duty is to protect life on Earth. True to the Hippocratic Oath, physicians will dedicate their knowledge, their hearts and their lives to the happiness of their patients and the well-being of the peoples of the world.
Tragedy and Triumph of Reason (1985)
I do not intend to argue the essence of these processes, all the more so because it has been proved that both types of memory function in the brain.
Tragedy and Triumph of Reason (1985)
In the nuclear age we are all interdependent. The Earth is our only common home which we cannot abandon. The new suicidal situation calls for the new thinking.
Tragedy and Triumph of Reason (1985)
I am convinced that today is a great and exciting day not only for the members of our international movement but also for all physicians on our planet, irrespective of their political and religious beliefs.
Nobel Peace prize acceptance speech (1985)
Keep in mind that when the first A-bomb was developed as a defense against Nazism, moral objections and conscience of scientists and many others involved were lulled by assurances that everything would be over after production of a few bombs.
Tragedy and Triumph of Reason (1985)
He wasn’t a man of erudition, yet very quickly grasped the significance of this or that problem for the state at large and for his own popularity rating. As one far removed from the sciences, he had tremendous respect for the opinions of scientists.
As adults we are obliged to avert transformation of the Earth from a flourishing planet into a heap of smoking ruins. Our duty is to hand it over to our successors in a better state than it was inherited by us.
Nobel Peace prize acceptance speech (1985)