Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

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

We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.

I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than the futures that we're being sold on the screen and on television.

We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. This revolution has produced the most powerful and diverse spur to innovation of any in modern times.

Information has become the fundamental element of modern life.

The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control.

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

Governance is a universal phenomenon in any society, but it may not lead a society to human development.

Edinburgh, Scotland went from a narrow, theocratic, awful society to the intellectuality and free thinking Great Enlightenment in only 100 years.

Capitalism had been more revolutionary than any previous social system. It had swept away without scruples old institutions and modes of thought, if they were found to stand in its way.

Please, join the modern world.

Progress in a globally interdependent society relies more than ever on the unimpeded flow of information.

… modern civilization … enables us to cure sickness on a huge scale and to destroy each other on a huge scale. It enables us to liberate each other on a huge scale and to tyrannize each other on a huge scale…. There is no evidence of any continuous upward line of social progress

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.

If one truly wishes to found a more just and rational social order, it is not enough to count on the caprices of technology.

I am not shy. I am for an open society. I am for a progressive world. I do not propose to reform France; I propose to transform it at its deepest level.

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

I think the Internet is the greatest invention since women.

Creating deep and meaningful change in this country takes time - years and sometimes decades.

At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the toil and improve the condition of the laborer; that the enormous increase in the power of producing wealth would make real poverty a thing of the past... From Progress and Poverty, To those who, seeing the vice and misery that spring from the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege, feel the possibility of a higher social state and would strive for its attainment.

The medium is the message — and the message is fracture.

You can only adjust to so much history in your life. I still have trouble texting.

The world is evolving.

I always had a desire to see change and be part of it.