Frances E. Willard Quotes

Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.

I much prefer the modern world.

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

The man of the millennium is much more liberated than the man of the '90s.

Advancing waves of other people’s progress sweep over the unchanging man and wash him out.

The technical progress of the last half-century has transformed our country in countless ways. But, fortunately, we have continued to keep our own customs and culture. It is up to us now, more than ever, in shaping our new country, to achieve a consolidation, in which neither the rapid progress of recent years, nor the age-old customs of our forefathers, are lost or diminished, but rather fused into a new national characteristic in which the best is preserved, while the worst may be thrown away.

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

I don't think people change; electronics change, the things we have change, but the way we live doesn't change.

You have to go with the times. You're going to get left behind if you don't.

Humans change themselves through technology.

When I contemplate the immense advances in sciences and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with confidence to equal advances by the present generation, and have no doubt they will consequently be as much wiser than we have been as we than our fathers were, and they than the burners of witches

So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny and the railroad, Cunard's liners and the electric telegraph, are to me, if not to you, signs that we are, on some points at least, in harmony with the universe; that there is a mighty spirit working among us, who cannot be your anarchic and destroying Devil, and therefore may be the Ordering and Creating God.

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

A society based on … reality must reconcile in its life, the categories of permanence and change.

We have really made an advance in civilization, that the principles on which our political and social order rest are in harmony with the laws of the universe, that we have set up an ideal which may never in genuine happiness certain...We are getting rid of old world things and becoming accustomed to the new. We are forming new creeds, new judgments, new manners; we are becoming a new race of men.

In the information age, when tradition, propriety, formality or culture clash with informational ease and utility, the traditional forms must … yield.

Please, join the modern world.

Government is on a collision course with the future

The masses in highly industrialized countries like England, the United States, or France are largely de-Christianized. Technology, and the way of life it produces, undermines Christianity far more effectively than do violent measures.

The old ideas won’t do.

The world changes fast, and a lot of the old country folks have a hard time keeping up with it, and it makes them sad.

Mourning the loss of the phone call is like pining for buggy driving or women in hats or three-martini lunches. They've gone.

My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer.

I think time has changed everything. Not only music but our surroundings, technology, fashion - everything has changed with time, and it will keep changing every day.

We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.