Quotes About Progress

The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.

I've written about how mortality is a wonderful indicator of societal progress.

Black Lives Matter has already demonstrated that it has the power to shift the societal landscape by bringing awareness to age-old issues that have plagued us as a people.

The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

We are dealing with the greater challenges of globalisation. It is generating, in many cases, an increase in the levels of inequality in societies... that is undesirable.

5G will have an impact similar to the introduction of electricity or the car, affecting entire economies and benefiting entire societies.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.

There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

And what are we going to leave for future generations? Are we going to leave them only buildings, cars? Or are we going to create more empathetic, more diverse societies more open to diversity?

America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.

For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly.

All societies are historical.

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.

The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.

Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.

Empowering women with greater income opportunities will lift societies at a much faster rate.

Women are the half of the engine of our societies; they are half of the engines of our economies.

History shows that societies where opportunity is safeguarded tend to be societies that are good international citizens.

When we talk about technology, often, we talk about the fact that it's going to be cool; it's going to do all these things for us. But at the same time, technology will deeply change our societies.

Societies are being interconnected and we have to adjust to that fact.