Herman Kahn Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

“I'm against ignorance.”

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

“I'm against fashionable thinking.”

“I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking.”

“Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.”

“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.”

“The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.”

“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.”