Nuclear weapons and loving one another (Berry)
June 19th, 2008 | Published in Morality, Quotes, Politics
It may be that the presence of nuclear weapons in the world serves notice that the command to love one another is an absolute practical necessity, such as we never dreamed it to be before, and that our choice is not to win or lose, but to love our enemies or die.
—Wendell Berry, “Property, Patriotism, and National Defense” in Home Economics (1986), p. 111.