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Jonathan Schell Quotes

1943–2014 United States

Jonathan Edward Schell (August 21, 1943 – March 25, 2014) was an author and visiting fellow at Yale University, whose work primarily deals with campaigning against nuclear weapons.

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

What happened at Hiroshima was less than a millionth part of a holocaust at present levels of world nuclear armament.

Either we will sink into a final coma and end it all or, as I trust and believe, we will awaken to the truth of our peril...and rise up to cleanse the earth of nuclear weapons.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jonathan Schell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.