Jose Saramago Quotes

The world is changing very profoundly.

Across all the globe there harshly blow the winds of change

For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly.

We are living in one of those rare moments in history when things may come apart and be put back together again in ways that will determine the future for decades or more, despite the endless innovations of technology.

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

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.

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.

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

In this post-industrial society, when we're moving away from what was the norm, we have to deal with what it has left in its wake in terms of the impact on people and the environment.

In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not.

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.

I think it is fair to say that it is under a great deal of stress, and if I am asking for significant changes, it is because the world is going through significant changes.

Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.

The human family is at a critical juncture. The world is moving through a great transition. This transition is economic, as the digital revolution advances and as new powers and groups emerge.

The world is very different today than it was in 1968.

Industrialization, by drawing people from the countryside to the cities brings with it the weakening of traditional political and social support systems.

We recognize the new order in the world, with the closer contacts which progress has wrought.

Geography determines social development …. But geography may be losing much of its meaning.

… the process of social change was not merely a matter of new inventions pressing on old institutions: it was a matter of new classes displacing old.

I know that the Seattle my parents knew is not the Seattle I know and that these things exist in a state of constant flux and change. The hope is that at least some of that change can be for the better.

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

You have a huge demographic shift that's happening in America. Globally.

We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society, and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of the regeneration of individuality, liberty, community, and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another, and with the divine intelligence such as the world has never dreamed.