A Quote by Michael Harrington

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

Michael Harrington

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Michael Harrington
American - Writer
February 24, 1928 - July 31, 1989

There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.

Prince Charles

Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.

David Cooperrider

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

Jane Addams

A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.

Francis Collins

My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights.

Condoleezza Rice

Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous.

Carl Sagan

Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story; not only to show the characters, but to advance.

Elizabeth Bowen

Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science." Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientists, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and deliberate control of all human activities. It is for this reason that those intoxicated by the advance of knowledge so often become the enemies of freedom.

Friedrich August von Hayek

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

Isaac Asimov

[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together.