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• I'm against fashionable thinking.
• Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the…
• I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.
• A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to…
• A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or…
• Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.
• As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would…
• Clearly, the first task is to gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the future, one that opens possibilities rather than…
• Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up…
• Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.
• For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of…
• 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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