#act

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. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#desirable #dynamism #extremely #future #general

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. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#any #billions #conviction #convinced #deprived

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. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#both #exactly #fight #how #i

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. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#accidents #actually #correct #hopefully #likely

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

— Herman Kahn

#considered #discussion #factors #human #missing

Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#contrast #experienced #feelings #happiness #happy

There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us. ↗

— Oliver Kahn

#back #beat #change #compact #difficult

Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist. ↗

— Tim Kaine

#candidates #civil #civil rights #civil rights act #does

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream! ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#billion #dream #like #million #must

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#action #catch #crime #fast #fix