Quotes about war
4 genuine Baruch quotes about war, most of them from Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (the Baruch Plan). 2 more quotes on war circulate under these names but are not their words as shared; they are listed at the end.
- We are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
Bernard Baruch, Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (the Baruch Plan) (1946), Opening of the address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, 14 June 1946.
- Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
Bernard Baruch, Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (the Baruch Plan) (1946), Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, 14 June 1946; paragraph after “Let this be anchored in our minds” and before the discussion of ethics and physics.
- We are today in the midst of a cold war.
Bernard Baruch, Bernard Baruch, speech to the South Carolina House of Representatives, Columbia, 16 April 1947; Journal of the House of Representatives of the First Session of the 87th General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, 1947, p. 1085, Speech to the South Carolina House of Representatives, Columbia, 16 April 1947.
- We must elect World Peace or World Destruction.
Bernard Baruch, Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (the Baruch Plan) (1946), Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, 14 June 1946; opening paragraph beginning “Behind the black portent of the new atomic age”.
Shared under these names, but not theirs as shared
- An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
Not found. Credited to Mahatma Gandhi. It is not in Gandhi’s works, and who first wrote it is not known.
- There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
Misattributed. Credited to Albert Camus. Not a sourced Camus quotation. A closely matching sentence is documented in Albert G. Dietrich’s 1943 letter; how it became the short saying credited to Camus is unresolved.