Herman Kahn

(16 votes)   Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

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(15 votes)   Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.

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(11 votes)   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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(10 votes)   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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(8 votes)   Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.

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(7 votes)   Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.

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(6 votes)   Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.

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(39 votes)   The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

Otto Herman Kahn
1867-1934, American Banker

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(23 votes)   Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

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(14 votes)   As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would be destroyed.

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(13 votes)   To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations.

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(11 votes)   Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.

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(9 votes)   A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security.

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(9 votes)   A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.

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(9 votes)   Clearly, the first task is to gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the future, one that opens possibilities rather than forecloses them.

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