Nations' History of Quotes
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
- Arthur C. Clarke 1917-, British Science Fiction Writer
"Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute."
- J.G. Ballard (1930)
"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."
- George Orwell (1903-1950)
"Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning."
- Octavio Paz (1914)
"Technology does not drive change -- it enables change."
-Unknown Source
"Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand."
- Putt's Law
"It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity."
- Albert Einstein
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree."
- William Blake
"As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan."
- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries
"America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole."
- Bobcat Goldthwait
"Freedom is a contagious blessing."
- Stephen Covington
"A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."
- George Santayana 1863-1952
"You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people."
- John Adams (1735-1826)
"Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed."
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
"The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations."
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
"Peace is liberty in tranquillity."
- Marcus T. Cicero (c 106-43 BC)
"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt."
- John Philpot Curran
"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."
- Angela Y. Davis (1944)
"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have."
- Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969)
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
- Maya Angelou (1928 - )
"The world is a great book, of which they who never stir from home read only a page."
- St. Augustine of Hippo
"Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense."
- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
"The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."
- Henry David Thoreau
"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
"No road to happiness or sorrow... Find them in yourself."
- Chinese Proverb
"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."
- Samuel Johnson
"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it."
- George Moore (1852-1933)
"A traveler without observation is a bird without wings."
- Moslih Eddin Saadi
"All that is gold does not glitter; not all those who wander are lost."
- John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- George Orwell
