Jonathan Schell Quotes

When your house is on fire—that is not the time to talk

This [climate change] is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly. Do we want to play Russian roulette with two bullets or one?

Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!

Everything we know and love is at risk if we continue to ignore the warnings.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Danger is sauce for prayers.

We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.

Every crisis has within it, opportunity. Every crisis has within it, danger.

If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger

Every mission has life-or-death moments.

If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

Hey, this is terrific!" he said. "Someone down there is trying to kill us!" "Terrific," said Arthur. "But don't you see what this means?" "Yes. We are going to die." "Yes, but apart from that." "Apart from that?!" "It means we must be on to something!" "How soon can we get off it?

When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!

We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.

The truth is that we're at a critical juncture in the history of our species and if we don't act soon, we could inhabit a world we don't recognize anymore.

He who fears dangers will not perish by them.

We've got a bad fire let's get out . . . We're burning up.

The crisis is a concrete threatening reality today. It stands to get catastrophically worse unless we take action before the accumulation [of] this global warming pollution reaches such toxic levels that the problem becomes bigger than we can solve.

Climate change is not going away. It will only get more extreme and more dangerous with time. There is no hiding from it. Yes, those living in poverty today will be hit first and the hardest, but we are all going to feel it and see it. We already are.

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.

Our planet's alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action!

The more honor, the more danger.