"And finally, as for the reluctance of a political leader to go down in history as the first man to kill 100 million people, such considerations did not interfere with the decision to saturate cities with bombs during the Second World War; nor did they restrain the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Why then should we expect the force of moral considerations to be greater now when the survival of entire nations is at stake?"
- from an essay called "The Case Against Shelters" by Erich Fromm and Michael Maccoby
- written in the early 1960s
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