"For if enough people were really convinced that……" — Herman Kahn
"For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate."
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Herman Kahn
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37 Quotes by Herman Kahn
Herman Kahn has 37 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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 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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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how…
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I acted in millions of TV shows.
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Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to…
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay…
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it…
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I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake…
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I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.
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I've acted professionally since I was 16.
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I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it…
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of…
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