Jon Stewart Quotes

Since the war [WWII], the world has been rushing forward at an unprecedented and exhilarating speed … Yet Britain lags behind, lacking the will or the plan which can bring this future within the reach of us all.

Society is changing constantly, and changing faster than we think.

For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading C by the hand, and with D in the distance.

The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.

We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just.

I've seen anti-Semitism essentially disappear in my adult life as a social and economic factor. There may be some nuts out there, but generally things are fine. I think the same thing will happen with gayness. We'll get to a point soon enough where it's not even an issue anymore. But progress can be slow

What seems impossible today, may half a century hence have become commonplace.

While we rejoice in the new possibilities open to humanity, we also see the dangers arising from these possibilities, and we must ask ourselves how we can overcome them.

Regardless of politics, our world will continue to change rapidly.

I want to show the world that there is more to Africa than poverty, hunger, and disease.

I think the game in general is changing so fast right before our eyes.

The nation is trying to catch up with a rapidly changing world.

Every single stage of reform becomes more difficult because you use political capital.

The world is evolving.

Around the year 2000, countries such as France, the Netherlands and the US were already five times as wealthy as in 1930. Yet nowadays our biggest challenges are not leisure and boredom, but stress and uncertainty.

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

We live in an age where the rate of change has been colossal. Colossal. Almost every week there's some transformation of some kind, whether technological or political or scientific, whatever. And I think it's bewildering to human beings to live in a time when they can't take anything as fixed - when everything is shifting and changing all the time.

These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

I believe that solution to all problems is in development. Development is also the solution to the tension that people talk about.

If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.

Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.

I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.

Not every advance is progress. Not every new thing is better for us humanly.

It's possible to go faster than folk are ready for; that's the key to democracy.