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

- 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…

- 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 …

- 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

Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the envir…

- Jonathan Schell

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

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- Jonathan Schell