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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 moment.”

Quote by Herman Kahn

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Herman Kahn was a renowned strategist, born on February 15, 1922, and died on July 7, 1983. He made significant contributions to nuclear war and strategic studies during the Cold War era, known as the 'father of nuclear war theory'. more

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“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.”

Giving Important Matter Government Individual Decision Numbers Attention Fundamentals Suits Buying Surprising Committees Important Decisions

Book:The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking

Source: The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking

“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.”

Should Interest Security Healthy Resources Variety National Security Competing Precedence

Book:The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking

Source: The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking

“Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.”

Should War Destruction Related Immoral

Book:The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking

Source: The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking

“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.”

Ifs World Would Be Today Weapons Nuclear Destroyed Nuclear Weapons World Today Disarmament Banned

Book:Thinking Unth 80SP

Source: Thinking Unth 80SP

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

Firsts Views Possibility Acceptance Gains Tasks Reasonable

Author:Herman Kahn

“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.”

Wealth Decision Technology Issues Conditions Relation International Criteria International Relations Unprecedented New Technology Domestic Life

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“Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.”

Values Morality Safety Primaries Workplace Safety Deterrence

Book:The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking

Source: The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking

“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.”

People Ifs Should Enough Might Opportunity Growth Conviction Convinced Billions Enjoyed Fortunate Realistic Deprived

Book:The next 200 years: a scenario for America and the world

Source: The next 200 years: a scenario for America and the world

“For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.”

Thinking Way Should Years War Fighting My Time

Book:The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking

Source: The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking

“Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.”

Humans Moral Missing Policy Factors Discussion Missing You

Book:The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking

Source: The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking