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People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | John Kenneth Galbraith |

We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Aldous Huxley |

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Henry David Thoreau |