Jean Houston Quotes

However, the agricultural revolution took thousands of years, the Industrial Revolution took hundreds, and the information revolution only took decades. So, who knows what's going to happen in the next few decades, especially with the women's revolution.

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.

The society was so different [in China] - it was a feudalistic society. It didn't come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.

Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years ago.

But another thing I know is this — we can’t steer ourselves out of this crisis by heading in the same, disastrous direction. We can’t change direction with a new driver who wants to follow the same old map. And that’s what this election is all about.

We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.

[Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set.

How can we be so confident that we are correct about the religion of Islam that it is really different in this insidious way and people 50 years from now, people aren't going to back on.

Every generation and every group brings the door into other things.

I've studied golf for almost 50 years now and know a hell of a lot about nothing.

Social evolution may be the result of intention, but it rarely, if ever, produces the result intended.

When what you’re doing doesn’t work for 50 years, it’s time to try something new.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them.

As I've gotten older and the world has gotten far more complicated .

Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.

Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became a major industry and the middle class bought radios to hear the ads and cars to get to the stores. ... But there is no question that the consumer culture had begun to crowd out all other cultural possibilities by the years following World War II.

Over the past five years, I've met several presidents, several secretaries of education ... and there is no plan. If you want to save your children, you're going to have to do it yourself. It's just us.

Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.

The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.

It can be exalting to belong to a church that is five hundred years behind the times and sublimely indifferent to fashion; it is mortifying to belong to a church that is five minutes behind the times, huffing and puffing to catch up.

A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.

I think the fact that us as a race still continues to be very tribal and we haven't really moved away from that over hundreds and hundreds of years of experience.

The matriarchal society 1300 years ago in Egypt was a peaceful society; that's where you had no war for thousands of years! When they switched to patriarchal society, when the male energy ruled, we became obsessed with the greed. Now we are in this time of intense greed!