"Mark my words, this boy, Garry Davis, has grasped the only problem which deserves the devotion of contemporary man, the problem to which I myself am determined to devote the rest of my life, up to my very last day: a problem which is, very simply, the survival of the species. It is a question of knowing whether mankind - the very universe of man - will disappear by its own hand, or whether it will continue to exist."
Quoted in the transcript of the 10/04/1949 hearing before the 14th Court of Corrections in Paris,
as translated by Richard V. Carter in Survival Meetings, Writers Club Press, 2001