Quotes by Lester B. Pearson, page 2

Lester B. Pearson - canadian politician

Life period: 1897 - 1972

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about politics, objects, use

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

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about nation, peace

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

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about peace, war

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about life, force, police, day

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.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about revelation, war

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war, destruction, society

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

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about poverty, war

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about destruction, state, power

True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about history, peace, good, good luck, time, man

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war, expectation, progress, idea, man

We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about opinion

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war, destruction, nothing

We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about interest, problems, self-control

Whatever it is that leads men to fight and suffer, to face mutilation and death, the motive is not now self-interest in any material sense.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about suffering, interest, fight, self-control, common sense, sense, death, man, face

When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about gifts, voice