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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction...
HERMAN KAHN

A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing int...
HERMAN KAHN

Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, ...
HERMAN KAHN

The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also cre...
HERMAN KAHN

Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high mor...
HERMAN KAHN

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

Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but ...
HERMAN KAHN

Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relati...
HERMAN KAHN

Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the fir...
HERMAN KAHN

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.
HERMAN KAHN

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters wi...
HERMAN KAHN

From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth...
HERMAN KAHN

Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral u...
HERMAN KAHN

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common e...
HERMAN KAHN

For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prev...
HERMAN KAHN

I'm against ignorance.
HERMAN KAHN The appeal all too often is to the gallery, hungry for sensation.
OTTO HERMANN KAHN As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
OTTO HERMANN KAHN As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and ...
OTTO HERMANN KAHN The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
OTTO HERMANN KAHN

You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.&#...
LOUIS KAHN A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the lev...
OLIVER KAHN This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.
OLIVER KAHN When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.
OLIVER KAHN If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.
OLIVER KAHN There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most im...
OLIVER KAHN We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.
OLIVER KAHN Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.
OLIVER KAHN I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are prob...
OLIVER KAHN If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.
OLIVER KAHN My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various r...
MADELINE KAHN In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.
MADELINE KAHN Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do...
MADELINE KAHN From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find...
MADELINE KAHN Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always jo...
MADELINE KAHN Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
MADELINE KAHN

There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think...
NATHANIEL KAHN

As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and...
NATHANIEL KAHN

My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural...
NATHANIEL KAHN For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech...
BOB KAHN

He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive.
MASTER KAHN

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
ROGER KAHN For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
ALICE KAHN

Horse racing is animated roulette.
ROGER KAHN

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.
ROGER KAHN

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.
ROGER KAHN

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.
LOUIS KAHN

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being...
LOUIS KAHN

I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never...
NATHANIEL KAHN

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of th...
LOUIS KAHN

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
LOUIS KAHN I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it...
MADELINE KAHN You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the f...
BOB KAHN

He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive.
MASTER KAHN

All words are part true and part false.
MASTER KAHN

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to hi...
LOUIS KAHN

architecture is...
LOUIS KAHN

To express is to drive.And when you want to give something presence, you have to consult nature.And ...
LOUIS KAHN

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
LOUIS KAHN Hamburg celebrated like they had already won the championship. But we are still top and let's see wh...
OLIVER KAHN We greatly support the idea of helping people with diabetes better manage their disease. We also are...
RICHARD KAHN We're exempted, but we're voluntarily doing it.
MAUREEN KAHN In terms of dangers, such as viruses, fraud or identity theft, I don't think we were thinking ab...
BOB KAHN I think that regardless of whether or not there's a downturn, people want their children to have wha...
AL KAHN It should be our largest property.
AL KAHN You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog
ALFRED KAHN Nobody could fly an airplane commercially on any route without specific permission from the Civil Ae...
ALFRED KAHN We are thrilled to serve as the partner of choice and act as the vehicle for Microsoft to broaden it...
ALFRED KAHN It's like saying, 'We've got 95 percent of the benefits of deregulation -- why bother going for the ...
ALFRED KAHN It turned out that their problems were far more fundamental (than September 11).
ALFRED KAHN People Express is clearly the archetypical deregulation success story and the most spectacular of my...
ALFRED KAHN The characters are built up of layers and layers. We're just adding our own layer.
ALEX KAHN All of that (research) was academic. Carnival is all about personal perception. So you get here and ...
ALEX KAHN And that's precisely why we've made a pilgrimage here. What we've been doing for 8 years, Trinidad h...
ALEX KAHN The sponsor, by filing an arbitration action against me and the university, is trying to intimidate ...
JAMES KAHN When these so called 'morning-after' clinics were first founded, many worried that they would be con...
JAMES KAHN Over the course of the four-week study thus far, we've had nobody become HIV infected,
JAMES KAHN Touch is critical for life, even as adults. Very few people get touched often enough so touching can...
TINA KAHN What I think happens is that the bones in the face lose volume and recede a little bit as we age.
DAVID KAHN It absorbs faster than cotton.
BETTE KAHN

He was Jackie Robinson's friend,
ROGER KAHN It's not so much that Sears and Kmart did anything wrong, it's just that they didn't change while th...
BARBARA KAHN My personal feeling is if the complexity becomes difficult for me, I frequently will pass off part o...
BARBARA KAHN It's not so much that Sears and Kmart did anything wrong, it's just that they didn't change while th...
BARBARA KAHN My personal feeling is if the complexity becomes difficult for me, I frequently will pass off part o...
BARBARA KAHN You're being given an extraordinary gift,
BARBARA KAHN We felt we had left behind our 20- to 30-year-old customer. But CB2 turned into something bigger. It...
BETTE KAHN We are fortunate to have as our coach somebody of Sam's stature both in the USA and internationally....
DAVID KAHN Our findings lead us to believe soft tissue augmentation will play an even greater part in facial re...
DAVID KAHN To think that this might be to our advantage would be the dumbest things to do, ... It may be a bluf...
OLIVER KAHN

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
LOUIS KAHN Americans are notorious for ignoring fuel economy. I think that's going to change.
DAN KAHN Many people believe that only gravity creates wrinkles; however, we have discovered the loss of volu...
DAVID KAHN But for the average person, I wouldn't use [the IRS controversy] as my leverage in terms of dealing ...
DAVID KAHN We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island,
OLIVER KAHN It was not our day, not our match and somehow we were due for a loss. Now the weight of the winning ...
OLIVER KAHN I know I am playing tomorrow. After that we'll see. The coach will decide something, I am sure.
OLIVER KAHN Many Australians play in the (English) Premier League and we'll know they will be aggressive from th...
OLIVER KAHN We were not 100 percent against Hamburg but our (unbeaten domestic) run is over and maybe that will ...
OLIVER KAHN There's a lot of redundancy in these stores. If the idea of this merger is to make these department ...
BARBARA KAHN I figured out a new way to pronounce his name. I found out he might have died from an infection in h...
JACK KAHN When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest,
OLIVER KAHN There is no consolation,
OLIVER KAHN

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.
ROGER KAHN [Conseco] is my baby. I think we made the Fieldhouse more intimate than people expected. Some wanted...
DAVID KAHN Child give me your hand so that I may walk in the light of your faith in me.
HANNAH KAHN There is no settlement. Any discussions that we had with plaintiff's counsel had not been concluded,...
LAWRENCE KAHN We see allergic tendencies much more common in children than adults, and nobody really knows exactly...
DAVID KAHN But for the average person, I wouldn't use [the IRS controversy] as my leverage in terms of dealing ...
DAVID KAHN We're the second 3A school. The top runner has never been a problem, but now they have the rest of t...
BILL KAHN You never know what's going to happen. In cross-country it's the entire race.
BILL KAHN Cross-country and soccer practice coincide. It's the nature of the beast.
BILL KAHN If you have two runners of equal quality, the one who's running all the time will perform better. It...
BILL KAHN We have to run with people from our neighborhood. That's how it goes.
BILL KAHN It doesn't have to be running, just something aerobic.
BILL KAHN You have to feel it out and see where everyone's at.
BILL KAHN In girls, a freshman can be a star. In boys, they need to be a junior or senior to be a champion run...
BILL KAHN They're coming on real strong.
BILL KAHN As we age, not only do we lose fat in our faces but our bones actually change in contour, often maki...
DAVID KAHN Doctor Jones, we're all vulnerable to vicious rumors. I seem to remember that in Honduras you were a...
JAMES KAHN

I covered a team that no longer exists in a demolished ballpark for a newspaper that is dead,
ROGER KAHN I have exactly the same feeling (as before the 2002 finals),
OLIVER KAHN Tarzan is direct; he doesn't ask Jane if they might have a meaningful relationship or if they can ge...
RICHARD KAHN I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably...
OLIVER KAHN It's a very important and interesting finding. I'm confident that the FDA will pursue this to the en...
RICHARD KAHN The combination of risk factors doesn't add up to a more significant or higher cardiovascular risk t...
RICHARD KAHN It's a very important and interesting finding, ... I'm confident that the FDA will pursue this to th...
RICHARD KAHN The combination of risk factors doesn't add up to a more significant or higher cardiovascular risk t...
RICHARD KAHN We shouldn't be diagnosing people with the 'metabolic syndrome.' Doing so misleads the patient into ...
RICHARD KAHN We don't believe there's a syndrome. We don't believe that the whole is greater than the sum of the ...
RICHARD KAHN He was very confident that he could handle any sort of situation that might arise, ... I saw him as ...
JOSEPH KAHN

You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.
ROGER KAHN We don't usually think of the shrinking of the bones or manage this in terms of aging. I think what ...
DAVID KAHN When we think of aging of the face, ... we typically just think that the soft tissue -- the skin and...
DAVID KAHN As we age, not only do we lose fat in our faces but our bones actually change in contour, often maki...
DAVID KAHN served its useful life.
DAVID KAHN

Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlo...
ROGER KAHN

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of it...
LOUIS KAHN

It is dangerous to spring to obvious conclusions about baseball or, for that matter, ball players. B...
ROGER KAHN If I'm driving by myself, I'm spending $40 a week. Now it's cut down to, like, once a month.
DAN KAHN A year ago, I was telling people hybrids are nice. But now I've changed my story. They're making mor...
DAN KAHN A year ago I was telling people hybrids are nice. But now I've changed my story. They're making more...
DAN KAHN We're a successful business. One property does not make us; one property cannot hurt us. Our vision ...
GARY KAHN I liked the really big tomb. It was solid gold and nothing else.
JACK KAHN I think what you're seeing is a national trend of women being more engaged in college than men are. ...
JACK KAHN It's hard to say no for a lot of people, it's hard to say no for us. You have to understand your bus...
IAN KAHN The beauty of being a book dealer is you get to vicariously possess wonderful things.
IAN KAHN Both of us have perimeter players who are quick and athletic. We both like to attack the basket with...
MARCUS KAHN You can look back and say we beat them twice, and that's good. But, in reality, we beat them by a to...
MARCUS KAHN The words of the family's loved one were intensely private, often uttered when the caller realized h...
LAWRENCE KAHN We have advised plaintiff's counsel that any offer we had made is off the table pending further disc...
LAWRENCE KAHN The city continues to express its deep regret for this tragic accident and hopes that this settlemen...
LAWRENCE KAHN He was just barely a pound.
LARRY KAHN The people who want to be here will find a way to stay.
LARRY KAHN

All material in nature,
the mountains and the streams and the air and we,
are made of Ligh...
LOUIS KAHN

A Work of Art
... is not a living thing ...
that walks or runs.
But the making of a life...
LOUIS KAHN

To express is to drive.
And when you want to give something presence,
you have to consult n...
LOUIS KAHN

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as ...
LOUIS KAHN

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.
LOUIS KAHN

The street is a room by agreement.
LOUIS KAHN

Every building must have... its own soul.
LOUIS KAHN

What does a house want to be?
LOUIS KAHN

I try to create homes, not houses.
LOUIS KAHN

In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.
LOUIS KAHN

A room is not a room without natural light.
LOUIS KAHN If he can keep his head straight, he can have a very successful career as a filmmaker. He can be one...
JOSEPH KAHN I said to him: 'You didn't have any crucial role in that story,
JOSEPH KAHN He had no substantial reporting role at all. I think he knew about the story, and I believe he was v...
JOSEPH KAHN potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself.
JOSEPH KAHN One of the unintended consequences of Roe vs. Wade is it stakes everything to viability. Well, viabi...
JEFFREY KAHN that somehow the inability of a woman to pursue a normal function due to health reasons isn't an ill...
JEFFREY KAHN I don't think that anybody believes that by giving somebody penicillin we're playing God, ... but we...
JEFFREY KAHN Part of what makes our country a great one is that we're willing to share our expertise. Obviously w...
JEFFREY KAHN We do work hard to provide the services the community needs and to keep people healthy.
MAUREEN KAHN I wanted this to be about the people and the psychology of the people,
MICHAEL KAHN All of the low-hanging fruit is taken. And it wasn't hanging very low.
TOM KAHN

People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not...
OTTO DIX To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
OTTO LILIENTHAL

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
OTTO WEININGER

The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why w...
OTTO WEININGER

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women o...
OTTO WEININGER

Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every real...
OTTO WEININGER

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
OTTO WEININGER

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.
OTTO WEININGER May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this ...
OTTO WALLACH As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced b...
OTTO WALLACH Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of ...
OTTO WALLACH In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i...
OTTO WALLACH In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted am...
OTTO WALLACH One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least s...
OTTO WALLACH As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it ap...
OTTO WALLACH As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organ...
OTTO WALLACH It has been possible to trace historically back to a very early age the taxes which were imposed on ...
OTTO WALLACH This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be ...
OTTO SCHILY Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so ...
OTTO SCHILY It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from afflu...
OTTO SCHILY Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, t...
OTTO SCHILY And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is ...
OTTO SCHILY The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see ...
OTTO SCHILY It is a warning to all those who may think about becoming involved with a terrorist network, people ...
OTTO SCHILY

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

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