Alvin Toffler Quotes

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy.

You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.

We cannot change the political system, we cannot change the economic system, we cannot change the social system, until the people control the land, and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the meaning and the intention of humanity.

The people weren't quite ready for a socialist production system.

Those who are seeking miraculous remedies for the depression are mistaken. Either the present depression is a periodic depression with the economic system, in which case it will be overcome, or it represents a transition from one stage of civilization to another.

Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.

What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist.

The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.

If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).

Modifying the core institutions of the society is no small challenge.

Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives.

There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.

You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal.

Once we link up and network, there will be new institutions, new beginnings, and a change in the economy because capitalism is destroying many people's lives. It's just one leap to think in a different way.

What I wanted to do was give society the information it needed to decide if it wanted to change the system.

You can use principles of the free market to drive social change.

The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed.

If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.

I think the modernization of Chinese economy and Chinese society is a prime concern.

We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.

The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That's the key to transforming society in the larger arena.

What [Bernie] Sanders has done is he's focused the nation on the fact that these things are not inevitable. They are the result of policies. We can do better to create an economy that works well for working Americans.

Neither one of us believe that you can fix the culture from within by just throwing money and people at the system. There has to be a systemic change within the system.

I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end capitalism.