Famous Quotes

"One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition."

Alvin Toffler on Society

More quotes about Society

• "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

• "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

  Robert A. Heinlein on Society

• "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

  Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society

• "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society

• "There is more to life than increasing its speed."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

More quotes by Alvin Toffler

• "My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace."

• "To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke."

• "Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time."

• "Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life."

• "Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock."