"Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is……" — Herman Kahn
"Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard."
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37 Quotes by Herman Kahn
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I'm against fashionable thinking.
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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…
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A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would…
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A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are…
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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…
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Clearly, the first task is to gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the future, one that opens possibilities…
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Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are…
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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…
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For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent…
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Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.
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