Elaine Scarry

Overview

Elaine Scarry born April 30, 1946. Harvard professor; author of Thermonuclear Monarchy, 2014.

Quotations

“Nuclear weapons are antithetical to the values of civil society because they wrestle power away from the people and place it in the hands of a few. If we have lost all say over what our military does, we have lost our civil stature.” (Amherst Student, Nov. 3, 2015)

“With nuclear weapons, there is a clear solution. We need to get rid of nuclear weapons. We need to get rid of our own, which then gives us a moral basis for asking other countries to give them up, and to work hand-in-hand with all the countries that have been begging to have a world free of nuclear weapons.” (Sarah Gerard interview, The American Reader; photo Englishfasharvard)