Author: Lester B. Pearson

Quotes

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

- Lester B. Pearson

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

- Lester B. Pearson

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

- Lester B. Pearson

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

- Lester B. Pearson

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

- Lester B. Pearson

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.

- Lester B. Pearson

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.

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

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

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

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