Hans Luther Quotes

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.

No nation owes more to the steel wheel on the steel rail though it is not always clear whether railways were built to unite Canada, or Canada was created to justify the rail building.

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

We are not overpopulated in an absolute sense; we've got the technology for 10 billion, probably 15 billion people, to live on this planet and live good lives. What we haven't done is developed our technology.

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

Especially in the West, people want to understand Asia on a deeper level because it's become the engine of the world economy, like it or not.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

It is characteristic that this should take place just when it is becoming more and more clear to all who think about the matter, that technically and economically we have left the territorial state behind us.

The world has changed profoundly since our programs were first established.

The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

The remote area today is more proximate to economic potential. A fiber-optic cable can go where no road or rail ever has.

Railways are my politics.

Give us 20 years, and you'll not recognize this country!

A completely industrialized society is of no consequence to me.

The economic development of industrial society tends inevitably to the ruin of small industries.

A world in which we can fully experience the benefits that a connected society brings remains out of reach. Vested interests all too often feel threatened by the modern world, and they are holding Scotland back. We want to change that.

We do not ride upon the railroad. It rides upon us.

No nation has ever aggressively and intensely exploited national resources over such a great area as has the United States.

Even oil wealth will not insulate a country from modernity forever.

Today, our world is more interconnected than ever. This offers many opportunities; it creates wealth and new freedoms. Yet our world is also vulnerable, full of friction points and conflicts of interest.

The world is moving ahead to become more integrated and connected, where movement of goods and people is becoming easier with each passing day.