Arthur Keith Quotes

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.

Society is changing constantly, and changing faster than we think.

The world is evolving.

Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

The world has changed profoundly since our programs were first established.

First of all, I think the situation today is different. We're in a different place than we were in '93, '94.

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

The longer a region is in contact with modern civilization, the higher the degree to which the society in the region is civilized.

Are we changing as fast as the world around us?

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.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.

Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.

I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

It's a different world.

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct.