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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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We will be misguided in our intentions if we point at one single thing and say that it will prevent war, unless,…
— Leslie Groves
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...the role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place.
— George W. Bush
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A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war.
— Albert Einstein
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The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing…
— Max Lerner
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To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent…
— Albert Einstein
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The most fundamental paradox is that, if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use…
— Ronald Reagan
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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…
— Herman Kahn
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My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and…
— A.M. Homes
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A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World…
— Albert Einstein
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You want to prevent war, you talk, talk, but you also have to back it up with actions.
— Steve Scalise
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I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war.…
— Wangari Maathai
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words…
— Virginia Woolf
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