I see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential to make life unlivable on this planet.

- Bernard Lown

We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human rights and hard-won civil li…

- Bernard Lown

In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.

- Bernard Lown

Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind.

- Bernard Lown

As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as "necessary" in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never be gotten rid of.

- Bernard Lown

Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.

- Bernard Lown

Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a…

- Bernard Lown

Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.

- Bernard Lown

The International Declaration of Human Rights says the right to housing, health, education should be guaranteed to everyone. The moment these things …

- Bernard Lown