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Herman Kahn has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I'm against fashionable thinking.
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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the…
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I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.
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A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to…
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A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or…
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Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.
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As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would…
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Clearly, the first task is to gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the future, one that opens possibilities rather than…
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Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up…
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Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.
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For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of…
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For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and…
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When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests,…
— Wes Jackson
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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a…
— C. Wright Mills
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For society to function some kind of reasonable balance has to be stuck between the competing interests of creditors and debtors. Although…
— Linda McQuaig
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A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or…
— Herman Kahn
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We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore…
— Eric Liu
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Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve…
— Sarah Palin
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Many climate change deniers would have you believe that addressing climate change is all pain and no gain. This is simply not…
— Paul Tonko
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Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working…
— Arthur Levitt
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The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are…
— Mark Shields
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