Jonathan Schell Quotes

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• Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There will be more than enough…
• 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 multiform…
• Since after extinction no one will be present to take responsibility, we have to take full responsibility now.
• 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, and…
• Every person is the right person to act. Every moment is the right moment to begin.
• The use of a mere dozen nuclear weapons ... would be a human catastrophe without parallel. ... Because so few weapons can kill so many…
• [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 the…
• No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course.

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