Herman Kahn Quotes

Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.

Perhaps one day the world will end, giving the last group to predict it the satisfaction of being right - but as many have been wrong so far, it does not seem wise to make public policy on the back of these fears.

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

I'm really into sci-fi. I always have been. In addition to that, I've always had a tremendous fascination with the lure of the Apocalypse or Judgment Day or the Mayan calendar, etc., etc.

But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.

The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic... The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

'Apocalyptic Love,' that is pretty from the hip in the sense that, one day, Slash and I were talking - I think it was Slash and I - about the end of the world and the Mayan calendar and all that crazy stuff.

We will have to wait a little longer to see if Armageddon has arrived.

The end approaches, but the apocalypse is long lived.

The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.

It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.

Forecasting Armageddon has become trendy of late, with a great deal of attention being given to an interpretation of the Mayan Calendar suggesting that Mother Earth is destined for doom in December of 2012.

I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!

Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.

I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.

I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.

Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.

The apocalypse is not around the corner.

I have no belief in The Bible or religion, but I think Armageddon was a lucky guess. I honestly think it's going to happen.

I don't think the end of the world is the end of the world.

There is no need to get caught up in any apocalyptic prophecies that have no basis in reality.

I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.