It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda.… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
The spread of democracy is a wonderful thing-it is a necessary foundation for peace-and it can happen. But it cannot be advanced by force,… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
It is a key fact about American policy in Vietnam that the withdrawel of American troops was built into it from the start. None… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
The use of a mere dozen nuclear weapons ... would be a human catastrophe without parallel. ... Because so few weapons can kill so… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency to escape… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
The machinery of destruction is complete, poised on a hair trigger, waiting for the 'button' to be 'pushed' by some misguided or deranged human… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
Every person is the right person to act. Every moment is the right moment to begin. — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are legions in a single… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
The world is not to be approached, blueprint in hand, as if it were so much raw material waiting to be fashioned to someone's… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
“It was not unless one lifted one's gaze from all the allegedly normal events occurring before one's eyes and looked at the executioner's sword… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation. — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
Since after extinction no one will be present to take responsibility, we have to take full responsibility now. — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
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