#vance

The Americans provide still more advanced military assets and equipment; the Europeans are lagging behind. And eventually it will be difficult to co-operate even if you had the political will to co-operate because of the technological gap. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#assets #because #behind #co-operate #difficult

The master demon Screwtape identifies elitist humanity's tendency toward "an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their fellow men. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#elitism #relevance #men

I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical means of correcting their ill effects. But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#change #constitution #imperfections #laws #progress

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less. ↗

— David F. Jakielo

#irrelevance #change

And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#advanced #before #communication #distributed #economic

My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#advanced #am #argue #both #cooking

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#any #characteristic #essence #explanations #full

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#advanced #i #i think #movie #pretend

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason. ↗

— Hermann Broch

#always #bit #gone #madness #periods

The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#advanced #africa #commencement #consistent #controlled