Jonathan Glover Quotes

A central part of the torturer’s craft is to make his job easier by stripping the victim of protective dignity.

The use of the blockade against Germany to starve large numbers of people to death broke through the moral barrier against the mass killing of civilians. It was the precedent for the 'conventional' bombing of civilians in the Second World War and then for the use of the atomic bomb.

A phased decision can avoid there being a key moment when the moral issue about killing civilians has to be confronted.

A woman who was a schoolgirl at Hiroshima asked, “Those scientists who invented the atomic bomb, what did they think would happen if they dropped it?