"Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral,……" — Herman Kahn
"Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons."
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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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More Immoral Quotes
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic…
— John Berger
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Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price…
— Albert Camus
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Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous…
— Ludwig Feuerbach
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... I vowed that I would always respect the right of an individual to kill himself. Whether suicide was a…
— Phillip Lopate
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I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.... Every soldier thinks…
— Curtis LeMay
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As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.
— Omar N. Bradley
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The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and…
— Mark Twain
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Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to…
— Ayn Rand
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Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; rather, our fundamental problem is spiritual.…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that…
— Timothy Keller
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