"I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking.……" — Herman Kahn
"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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Herman Kahn
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37 Quotes by Herman Kahn
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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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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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More Clich Quotes
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The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.
— Vaclav Havel
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is…
— H. L. Mencken
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The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing.…
— Leonard Bishop
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Mathematics is not a deductive science-that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the…
— Paul Halmos
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What a story that would make! How many men and women go through the same rivers, menaced by the same…
— Richard Bach
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No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as…
— Geoff Dyer
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My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice…
— William Zinsser
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Cliché openings in fantasy can include an opening scene set in a battle (and my peeve is that I don’t…
— Kristin Nelson
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You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say,…
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life...It would be cliché to say my…
— George Eads
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One of the reasons why language is so sick right now and cliché-ridden and lame and boring and laid-out, and…
— Edward Dorn
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