Quotes from Jonathan Schell

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.

Deterence is only a stay of execution, not a reprieve.

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

Violence is the method by which the ruthless few can subdue the passive many. Nonviolence is the method by which the active many can overcome the ruthless few.

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