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

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Source : Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.24, Lexington Books

Herman Kahn

#Missing Quotes #Moral Quotes #Policy Quotes

“If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.”
“Music is politics - it always has been and it always will be.”
“Sitting in your garden is a feat to be worked at with unflagging determination and single-mindedness. . . . I am deeply committed to sitting in the garden.”
“The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.”
“I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity”
“A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them”
“Promising to bring home a feed of fish is the absolute kiss of death to any chances of catching anything but a large heap of derision when you get home.”
“I was going to kiss him, and I was going to regret it. But at that moment, I couldn't bring myself to care.”

Source : Michelle Hodkin (2012). “The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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