Richard Crossman 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.

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.

We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally.

The world is getting more connected through technology and travel. Cuisines are evolving. Some people are scared of globalization, but I think people will always take pride in cultural heritage.

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.

You can't find your way to social reform through the forces that made social reform necessary.

In times not long gone by, the higher and richer classes were in complete possession of the government. Their power was the master grievance of the country. The habit of voting at the bidding of an employer, or of a landlord, was so firmly established, that hardly anything was capable of shaking it

You're not going to have something set on a council estate that explores all elements of human existence, the variety of experience inherent in any community.

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

The world is rapidly changing - and with it, we face new global challenges.

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

The modern world is one wherein every nation has to develop the strength of which its citizens are capable. The independent status of the individual, his thoughts and actions become a thing of the past.

As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

If I wasn't doing this, I'd be in school studying political science or socioeconomic something. I love visiting different cultures and finding out how they make up a society.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen.

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.