Paul Kantner Quotes

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

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

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.

People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

When I was a student there in the mid-1990s, they had just created the weekend; depth and individuality were slowly returning after the austere, colorless low of the 1970s. When I returned to live in China from 2005 to 2013, the country was building everything anew.

During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.

After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.

Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.

What is the world coming to?

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

Modern industry and the opening of the world market made the struggle universal and at the same time gave it unheard-of virulence. Advantages in natural or artificial conditions of production now decide the existence or non-existence of individual capitalists as well as of whole industries and countries. He that falls is remorselessly cast aside.

I fear that some day or another we shall have in Europe a total upsetting of social order, which will drive all wise and experienced men to America.

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

I feel like the world that ' Condor' lives in is very close to the world we're all living in every day.

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

China's rise is really a kind of a world historical event. This is the largest country in the world. It has caused a wholesale substantial contraction of U.S. manufacturing employment.

Every 20 years or so, I feel that young people confront the same issues - a new war, new challenges.

For a while, I have had this theory that we, as a society, are coming to the end of the mass production, industrial phase of the human race.

You know, we live in a crazy world, I have to say.

You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.

Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred and clicked, and made parts for baby carriages and bottle caps, motorcycles and refrigerators, television sets and tricycles-the fruits of peace.

When you brought the Industrial Revolution in, all of a sudden India and China went from being the dominant global powers to being powers dominated by those who understood how to apply this new technology.