“We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty.”
“Struggle of power is natural in human because with power their individuality prevails over others.”
"Humanity", Ch.IV, "Rule: Power and Order" Part I
“Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower.”
Source: Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World, p. 47
Rogers Commission Report (1986)
Context: Let us make recommendations to ensure that NASA officials deal in a world of reality in understanding technological weaknesses and imperfections well enough to be actively trying to eliminate them. They must live in reality in comparing the costs and utility of the Shuttle to other methods of entering space. And they must be realistic in making contracts, in estimating costs, and the difficulty of the projects. Only realistic flight schedules should be proposed, schedules that have a reasonable chance of being met. If in this way the government would not support them, then so be it. NASA owes it to the citizens from whom it asks support to be frank, honest, and informative, so that these citizens can make the wisest decisions for the use of their limited resources.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Source: The Technological Society (1954), p. 138
