"World War I broke out largely because of……" — Herman Kahn
"World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race."
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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 Arms Quotes
This quote is filed under Arms Quotes,
one of 3,936 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
— Aristotle
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A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I feel more comfortable when I'm lighter - I sleep better, I snore less, I have more endurance when I…
— Tyra Banks
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the…
— Bob Barr
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When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
— John Barrymore
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A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing…
— Clara Barton
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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human…
— Charles Baudelaire
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For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse…
— Daniel Berrigan
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