Our technical civilization has just reached its greatest level of savagery. We will have to choose, in the more or less near future, between collective suicide and the intelligent use of our scientific conquests.[La civilisation mécanique vient de parvenir à son dernier degré de sauvagerie. Il va falloir choisir, dans un avenir plus ou moins proche, entre le suicide collectif ou l’utilisation intelligente des conquêtes scientifiques.]
Source:Between hell and reason: Essays from the Resistance newspaper Combat 1944-1947 (ed. 1988), On the bombing of Hiroshima (August 8, 1945), Page 110
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