"Since after extinction no one will be present……" — Jonathan Schell
"Since after extinction no one will be present to take responsibility, we have to take full responsibility now."
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8 Quotes by Jonathan Schell
Jonathan Schell has 8 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are…
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The spread of democracy is a wonderful thing-it is a necessary foundation for peace-and it can happen. But it cannot…
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Every person is the right person to act. Every moment is the right moment to begin.
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The use of a mere dozen nuclear weapons ... would be a human catastrophe without parallel. ... Because so few…
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[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel…
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No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course.
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More Extinction Quotes
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one of 202 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
— Samuel Beckett
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There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should…
— Heston Blumenthal
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Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens…
— Wernher von Braun
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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be…
— Joseph de Maistre
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Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely…
— Jean Dubuffet
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EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces…
— Steven Weinberg
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[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of…
— Bertrand Russell
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The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long…
— Samuel Adams
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Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
— Hillel the Elder
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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested…
— Abraham Lincoln
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