Jonathan Schell Quotes

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

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

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#3. 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.

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

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#5. The world is not to be approached, blueprint in hand, as if it were so much raw material waiting to be fashioned to someone's design.

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

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#7. It appears that no one is so unfortunate that he or she is exempt from spending cuts, while at the same time no one is so fortunate as to be ineligible for a tax cut

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