Daniel H. Wilson Quotes

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

The next great technology revolution might be around the corner, but it won't automatically improve most people's lives. That will depend on politics, which is indeed ugly but also inescapable.

Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.

I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Culture does matter, but politics can change culture.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

… science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of this dominant function, amid the din of political and religious strife, is the most vital of all the revolutions which have marked the development of modern civilization.

Class doesn't create culture anymore.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.

You cannot write about what people are really like without making a political adjudication. All our ideas of what human nature consists of or how people really feel and experience life are, at their base, political ideas.

My generation, we're so smart and opinionated, and we know the world we want to live in; we know the future we want. We're such a liberal, forward-thinking generation that's been held back by an older generation that doesn't understand it, doesn't want the world to progress quickly because of old ideologies.

It's hard to think that Mark Zuckerberg is actually impoverishing anyone by getting rich with Facebook. But driverless cars are another matter entirely.

It is easy to underestimate in advance the impact of globalization and automation - I have done it myself.

We must start pushing back against this politically correct nonsense that's destroying our society and culture.

You can't think of technology as separate from all of our human drama anymore.

Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose.

The world is a little more diverse in 2015 than when the Fantastic Four comic first came out in 1961.

Change often makes accepted customs into crimes.

I like to think about society as being a flock of birds: There seems to be a common consciousness in different time periods, and the new common consciousness reacts to the old standards.

Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them.

Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.