George Seldes (1890–1995) American journalist
Lords of the Press.
George Seldes (1890–1995) American journalist
Lords of the Press.
“Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Source: Being Peace
Bernard Lown (1921–2021) American cardiologist developer of the DC defibrillator and the cardioverter, as well as a recipient of the…
Nobel Peace Prize acceptance (1985)
Context: 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. We protest the expansion of the arms race to space. We protest the diversion of scarce resources from aching human needs. Dialogue without deeds brings the calamity ever closer, as snail-paced diplomacy is outdistanced by missile-propelled technology. We physicians demand deeds to implement further deeds which will lead to the abolition of all nuclear weaponry.
We recognise that before abolition can become a reality, the nuclear arms race must be halted.
“There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013), p. 135
Tom Lehrer (1928) American singer-songwriter and mathematician
"National Brotherhood Week"
That Was the Year That Was (1965)
Annette Baier (1929–2012) New Zealand philosopher
Source: Knowing Our Place in the Animal World, p. 73
“To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.”
John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal
Introduction, Part 5.
An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845)