2 Quotes by Robert Jungk

[...] every decent man confronted by a totalitarian regime ought to have the pluck to commit high treason.

The atomic scientists had become important people. That was their first discovery when they returned from their laboratories to the world at large. “Before the war we were supposed to be completely ignorant of the world and inexperienced in its ways. But now we are regarded as the ultimate authorities on all possible subjects, from nylon stockings to the best for of international organisation.