Ogden Nash Quotes

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

20 centuries of progress have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account and a high opinion of himself but not the capacity to live in high density without befouling and denuding his environment.

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.

Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable.

A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress.

Everything has changed in recent decades - the economy, technology, cultural attitudes, the demographics of the workforce, the role of women in society and the structure of the American family. It's about time our laws caught up. We watch 'Modern Family' on television, but we're still living by 'Leave It To Beaver' rules.

The world is changing very profoundly.

Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.

Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.

Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.

The civilized world is far ahead of us. We have no choice but to catch up.

In my mind globalization means returning the industrial revolution back to square one.

Only through perils and upheavals can Nations be brought to further developments. May the present upheavals lead to a better world.

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

Globalization is a harsh god.

Across all the globe there harshly blow the winds of change

Nations are liable to various revolutions in the state of their minds, and extent of their knowledge, as well as in their power and wealth ….

History is the record of human society or world civilization, of the changes that take place in the nature of that society … of all the transformations that society undergoes by its very nature.

… 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

If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts.

History is a relay of revolutions

The Industrial Revolution has two phases: one material, the other social; one concerning the making of things, the other concerning the making of men.

Innovation and commerce are as powerful tools for creating social progress as they are for driving technological advancement.

Indian cinema is changing not because of outside pressure but because of inside pressure. Society is changing. Obviously, ideas change because of globalization, because of the huge middle class that is mostly first generation.