“Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower.”
Source: Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World, p. 47
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Margaret Thatcher348
British stateswoman and politician 1925–2013Related quotes
“The human spirit must prevail over technology.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Speech in Warren, Michigan (August 11, 2016)
“Never, believe me,
Appear the Immortals,
Never alone.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
The Visit of the Gods, (Imitated from Schiller)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Mitt Romney (1947) American businessman and politician
2012 stump speech, quoted in [2012-1-22, Steyn, Mark, The Man Who Gave Us Newt, National Review, http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/288873/man-who-gave-us-newt-mark-steyn, 2012-02-02]
2012
Adam Roberts book Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer
Part 2, Chapter 4, “The Mystery of the Champagne Supernovae” (p. 128).
Jack Glass (2012)
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: America the Beautiful (2012), Ch. 13: 'What's Good about America'
“I believe in goodness, and I hope that good will prevail.”
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881) Swiss philosopher and poet
31 August 1869
Journal Intime (1882), Journal entries
Context: My mind has been a tumult of opposing systems, — Stoicism, Quietism, Buddhism, Christianity. Shall I never be at peace with myself? If impersonality is a good, why am I not consistent in the pursuit of it? and if it is a temptation, why return to it, after having judged and conquered it?
Is happiness anything more than a conventional fiction? The deepest reason for my state of doubt is that the supreme end and aim of life seems to me a mere lure and deception. The individual is an eternal dupe, who never obtains what he seeks, and who is forever deceived by hope. My instinct is in harmony with the pessimism of Buddha and of Schopenhauer. It is a doubt which never leaves me, even in my moments of religious fervor. Nature is indeed for me a Mala; and I look at her, as it were, with the eyes of an artist. My intelligence remains skeptical. What, then, do I believe in? I do not know. And what is it I hope for? It would be difficult to say. Folly! I believe in goodness, and I hope that good will prevail. Deep within this ironical and disappointed being of mine there is a child hidden — a frank, sad, simple creature, who believes in the ideal, in love, in holiness, and all heavenly superstitions. A whole millennium of idyls sleeps in my heart; I am a pseudo-skeptic, a pseudo-scoffer.
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Source: The Laundry Files, The Fuller Memorandum (2010), Chapter 5, “Lost in Committee” (p. 88)
