Best Quotes by Herman Kahn (Top 4)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war.
  4. 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.