#cause

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. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#coming #conditions #criteria #decision #domestic

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#arms race #because #broke #i #ii

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#certain #characters #directly #given #indirectly

Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#again #big #big ideas #causes #committed

You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything. ↗

— Paul Kantner

#because #big #everything #future #going

That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed. ↗

— Mitch Kapor

#chartered #government #nonprofit #purposes #receives

Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#because #chord #comfortable #doing #drum

I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns. ↗

— Flavor Flav

#both #brains #define #helmet #horns

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#amin #because #death #entire #feared

In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#case #different #emotions #first #first world