„Ognuno ha diritto d'aver torto con le proprie opinioni. Ma nessuno ha diritto d'aver torto con le proprie azioni.“
Origine: Citato in Selezione dal Reader's Digest, marzo 1985.
Frasi di Bernard Baruch
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Bernard Baruch
Data di nascita: 19. Agosto 1870
Data di morte: 20. Giugno 1965
Altri nomi: Bernard Mannes Baruch
Bernard Mannes Baruch è stato un politico statunitense.
Frasi Bernard Baruch
„[In occasione del suo 85° compleanno] Non vorrei mai diventare un uomo anziano. Per me, essere vecchi significa avere quindici anni in più di quelli che si hanno in realtà.“
Origine: Citato nellObserver, Londra, 21 agosto 1955.
„Se la sola cosa che hai è un martello, alla fine il mondo ti sembrerà un chiodo.“
Origine: Citato in Jeremy Rifkin, La civiltà dell'empatia: La corsa verso la coscienza globale nel mondo in crisi, traduzione di Paolo Canton, Mondadori, Milano, 2010, p. 550. ISBN 978-88-04-59548-9
„Milioni di persone hanno visto la caduta dellla mela, ma solo Newton si è chiesto "perché?"“
Origine: Citato in Roger Abravanel e Luca D'Agnese, La ricreazione è finita, Rizzoli, 2016, p. 129.
„È importante che i nostri sforzi siano rivolti al vero nocciolo del problema, e non ai dispersivi aspetti marginali. Più sono complesse le difficoltà che incontriamo, più diventa importante tenerlo a mente, perché fa parte della natura umana cercare di sfuggire a ciò che non sappiamo affrontare.“
Origine: Citato in Focus, n. 98, p. 188.
„Un capo politico dovrebbe guardarsi le spalle tutto il tempo per verificare se i giovani lo seguono. Se questo non accade, non potrà essere a lungo un capo politico.“
Origine: Citato nel suo necrologio sul New York Times, 21 giugno 1965.
„Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.“
Deming Headlight (New Mexico), 6 January 1950, as cited in the Yale Book of Modern Proverbs and at There Are Opinions, And Then There Are Facts; Freakonomics blog post by Fred R. Shapiro http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/08/18/there-are-opinions-and-then-there-are-facts/ (18 August 2011)
„Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation … Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.“
Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (14 June 1946)
„The peace of the world is the hope and the goal of our political system; it is the despair and defeat of those who stand against us.“
Speech to the South Carolina Legislature, Columbia, SC (16 April 1947); Baruch said that the phrase "cold war" was suggested to him by H. B. Swope, editor of the New York World; the term had earlier been used by George Orwell (1945)
Contesto: Let us not be deceived — we are today in the midst of a cold war. Our enemies are to be found abroad and at home. Let us never forget this: Our unrest is the heart of their success. The peace of the world is the hope and the goal of our political system; it is the despair and defeat of those who stand against us.
„Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions. We must embrace international cooperation or international disintegration“
Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (14 June 1946)
Contesto: Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions. We must embrace international cooperation or international disintegration. Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.
„Let us not be deceived — we are today in the midst of a cold war.“
Speech to the South Carolina Legislature, Columbia, SC (16 April 1947); Baruch said that the phrase "cold war" was suggested to him by H. B. Swope, editor of the New York World; the term had earlier been used by George Orwell (1945)
Contesto: Let us not be deceived — we are today in the midst of a cold war. Our enemies are to be found abroad and at home. Let us never forget this: Our unrest is the heart of their success. The peace of the world is the hope and the goal of our political system; it is the despair and defeat of those who stand against us.
„America has never forgotten — and never will forget — the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path“
the path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom — the clothing of the grave — that some people believe she is already fitted for.
Address on accepting The Churchman Award, New York (23 May 1944)
„It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom — the clothing of the grave — that some people believe she is already fitted for.“
Address on accepting The Churchman Award, New York (23 May 1944)
Contesto: America has never forgotten — and never will forget — the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path — the path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom — the clothing of the grave — that some people believe she is already fitted for.
„Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.“
Often quoted response to Igor Cassini, a popular society columnist for the New York Journal American, when asked how he handled the seating arrangements for all those who attended his dinner parties, as quoted in Shake Well Before Using: A New Collection of Impressions and Anecdotes Mostly Humorous (1948) by Bennett Cerf, p. 249; the full response was "I never bother about that. Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter." This anecdote is also Chiasmus and has also become part of a larger expression, which has been commonly attributed to Dr. Seuss, even in print, but without citation of a specific work : "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
„I am quite sure that in the hereafter she will take me by the hand and lead me to my proper seat.“
Regarding a childhood teacher, as quoted in News summaries (29 August 1955)
„Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.“
As quoted in Meyer Berger’s New York (1960)
„To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.“
On his 85th birthday, as quoted in The Observer [London] (21 August 1955)
„A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren’t still there, he’s no longer a political leader.“
As quoted in his obituary, New York Times (21 June 1965)
