A nuclear war does not defend a country and it does not defend a system. I've put it the same way many times; not even the most accomplished ideologu… - John Kenneth Galbraith

When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic.

In the fifteen years following the First World War, and especially in the immediate aftermath, the industrial nations exploited this new freedom in remarkably diverse fashion. The French followed the line of least resistance with, on the whole, the best results. The British followed the line of greatest wounds. The Germans so handled matters, or so yielded to circumstances, as to produce the greatest inflation of modern times. The United States, by a combination of mismanagement and non-management, produced the greatest depression. In all the long history of money, the decade of the 1920s—extended by a few years to the consequences—is perhaps the most instructive.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.