Quotes About Progress

In a way, we can have a much easier discussion about the future of technology than we can about why a young man kills another man in a war.

We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was historically an extremely personal experience.

It's taken a lot of presidents to get us where we are today, a lot of deployments, a lot of wars, a lot engagements. You add them all up.

It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between the community and the individual.

The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.

The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.

Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.

The continuous war between the reactionary and the progressive forces determine the degree of mankind's happiness.

I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.

Vietnam remains an underdeveloped economy with a high poverty incidence, ... party, people and army will continue to stand united and ... turn Vietnam into a developed country in the coming decades.

The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.

I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now.

you can't say civilization dont advance, in every war they kill you in a new way

History is a symptom of our disease

I'm not that man anymore. No one can stay that way too long. That's why wars end and a later generation catches its breath looking forward and erasing what's behind.

Would not a rational society spend more on understanding and preventing, than on preparing for, the next war?

People need new things to excite them, new inventions, new ideas, new art, new drugs, if there are no new things, then they resort to war