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 sins left for everyone to commit after we have taken nuclear bombs away from ourselves.
Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation. - Jonathan Schell
Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation.
- Jonathan Schell
The machinery of destruction is complete, poised on a hair trigger, waiting for the 'button' to be 'pushed' by some misguided or deranged human being… - Jonathan Schell
The machinery of destruction is complete, poised on a hair trigger, waiting for the 'button' to be 'pushed' by some misguided or deranged human being…
The use of a mere dozen nuclear weapons ... would be a human catastrophe without parallel. ... Because so few weapons can kill so many people, even f… - Jonathan Schell
The use of a mere dozen nuclear weapons ... would be a human catastrophe without parallel. ... Because so few weapons can kill so many people, even f…
[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 nuclear d… - 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 to escape the nuclear d…
Since after extinction no one will be present to take responsibility, we have to take full responsibility now. - Jonathan Schell
Since after extinction no one will be present to take responsibility, we have to take full responsibility now.
Because everything we do and everything we are is in jeopardy, and because the peril is immediate and unremitting, every person is the right person t… - Jonathan Schell
Because everything we do and everything we are is in jeopardy, and because the peril is immediate and unremitting, every person is the right person t…
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 still … - 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 by force, and still …
Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the envir… - Jonathan Schell
Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the envir…
It is a key fact about American policy in Vietnam that the withdrawel of American troops was built into it from the start. None of the presidents who… - Jonathan Schell
It is a key fact about American policy in Vietnam that the withdrawel of American troops was built into it from the start. None of the presidents who…
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