Quotes About Society

History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought.

The human condition is not served by our technical ability to transmit a televised image around the world - if that image is totally inane.

You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.

Focus on humanity, not on technology.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.

The planet on which we live is poorly organized, many areas are overpopulated, others are reserved for a few, technology's potential is only in part realized, and most people are starving.

We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies.

The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem close to fulfillment.

Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society.

It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.

The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a "living" document.

It's disgraceful and embarrassing that the highest technology in a typical city high school in this country is the metal detector the students pass through at the front door.

We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism.

Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.

The research carried out in the area of language technology is of utmost importance for the consolidation of Portuguese as a language of global communication in the information society.