Jonathan Schell

The spread of democracy is a wonderful thing-it is a necessary foundation for peace-and it can happen. But it cannot be advanced…

— Jonathan Schell

It is a key fact about American policy in Vietnam that the withdrawel of American troops was built into it from the…

— Jonathan Schell

“Deterence is only a stay of execution, not a reprieve.”

— Jonathan Schell

The use of a mere dozen nuclear weapons ... would be a human catastrophe without parallel. ... Because so few weapons can…

— Jonathan Schell

[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency…

— Jonathan Schell

The machinery of destruction is complete, poised on a hair trigger, waiting for the 'button' to be 'pushed' by some misguided or…

— Jonathan Schell

Every person is the right person to act. Every moment is the right moment to begin.

— Jonathan Schell

Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are legions in…

— Jonathan Schell

The world is not to be approached, blueprint in hand, as if it were so much raw material waiting to be fashioned…

— Jonathan Schell

“It was not unless one lifted one's gaze from all the allegedly normal events occurring before one's eyes and looked at the…

— Jonathan Schell

Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation.

— Jonathan Schell

Since after extinction no one will be present to take responsibility, we have to take full responsibility now.

— Jonathan Schell

No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course.

— Jonathan Schell

It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda.…

— Jonathan Schell

“It appears that no one is so unfortunate that he or she is exempt from spending cuts, while at the same time…

— Jonathan Schell

Because everything we do and everything we are is in jeopardy, and because the peril is immediate and unremitting, every person is…

— Jonathan Schell

The nuclear peril is usually seen in isolation from the threats to other forms of life and their ecosystems, but in fact…

— Jonathan Schell

Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There will be…

— Jonathan Schell