Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime! Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker More Quotes by Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker More Quotes From Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker Defeatism about the feasibility of plans for disarmament and ordered peace has been the most calamitious of all the errors made by democratic governments in modern times. Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker errors government peace In the age when the atom has been split, the moon encircled, diseases conquered, is disarmament so difficult a matter that it must remain a distant dream? Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker moon age dream War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker filthy war civilization