Max Lerner Quotes

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down.

These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish.

If local civil government is necessary for local civil peace, then world civil government is necessary for world peace.

World government will come, but we do not know the date.

We wring our hands over the miscarriages of technology and take its benefactions for granted

I'm definitely a techno-optimist. I think we can do amazing things. But in my experience, if a thing has great potential, there is also a risk of great downsides, so to speak. Coming from a truly, really enthusiastic 'wow decade,' we are now moving into waters where we are somewhat more cautious.

I think that Stripe generally is comprised of the kind of people who believe in technology or are kind of optimistic about its effect and want to have whatever future it's leading to happen.

I truly hope that we can evolve with technology, and use it for the benefit of all mankind, but history might suggest otherwise.

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

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

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.

If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.

My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine.

I am totally anti-technology.

However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

A world authority and an eventual world state are not just desirable in the name of brotherhood, they are necessary for survival.

Asians love technology. They see it as the path to a good life. This is not so in Europe where there is much skepticism about technology—maybe because of Nazi Germany and its use of technology.

One calls humans, who see only the good side of a new invention, technicians.

The United Nations is a foolish attempt at world government inspired by Satan.