“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.”
Nobel Peace Prize acceptance (1985)
Context: 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.
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American cardiologist developer of the DC defibrillator and… 1921–2021Related quotes

“For us, physicians, life is the aim of our work and each death is a tragedy.”
Tragedy and Triumph of Reason (1985)
Context: The human mind finds it difficult to comprehend the figure of 2,000 million victims. As they say, one death is death, but a million deaths are statistics. For us, physicians, life is the aim of our work and each death is a tragedy. As people constantly involved in the care of patients, we felt the urge to warn governments and peoples that the critical point has been passed: medicine will be unable to render even minimal assistance to the victims of a nuclear conflict — the wounded, the burned, the sick — including the population of the country which unleashes nuclear war.

Remarks by His Highness the Aga Khan at Évora University, Évora, Portugal (12 February 2006)]

Conversations with History interview (1999)
Context: Literature must be written from the periphery toward the center, and we can criticize the center. Our credo, our theme, or our imagination is that of the peripheral human being. The man who is in the center does not have anything to write. From the periphery, we can write the story of the human being and this story can express the humanity of the center, so when I say the word periphery, this is a most important creed of mine.
As quoted in "Religion : Go Ye and Relax?" in TIME magazine (20 April 1953)

“God gives life to human beings who in turn give birth to artificial intelligence.”
The Transhumanism Handbook, 2019