"Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation……" — Herman Kahn
"Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely."
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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 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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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
— Karen Armstrong
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
— Antonio Banderas
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
— Henry Adams
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
— Charles Baudelaire
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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