Futurologists Predictions Quotes & Sayings

You can have all the muskets you want! You can even have assault muskets! ... Their (the NRA's) paranoid fear of a possible dystopic future prevents us from addressing our actual dystopic present. We can't even begin to address 30,000 gun deaths that are actually, in reality, happening in this country every year because a few of us must remain vigilant against the rise of an imaginary Hitler. — Jon Stewart

It is not because food, clothes and property are inherently evil that Christians today must lower their standard of living. It is because others are starving. Creation is good. But the one who gave us this gorgeous token of his affection has asked us to share it with our sisters and brothers. — Ronald J. Sider

I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface. — James Nicoll

Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. — Robert E.Lee

The job of the writer is to change the way the reader sees the world. — Richard Ford

I think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you. — Steve Coogan

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. — Maurice Maeterlinck

The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets. — Laura Miller

There was no explanation for how the school, which was the major source of misery in their lives, could have been transformed into the most compelling place on earth simply by virtue of its being Saturday. What a difference a day makes, Albie's — Ann Patchett

I play drums and guitar. My best instrument is definitely drums, so I'm featured a lot on the album drumming. It's pretty futuristic as well. — Justin Bieber

There is no escaping from power, that it is always-already present constituting that very thing which one attempts to counter it with. — Michel Foucault

poor families in this neighbourhood. She has a large acquaintance, of course professionally, — Jane Austen

Violence always came too easy to you, that's the problem. It always felt too good. Remember the first time you trod on an ant, and with an infant stamp made the moving still, the present past? Wasn't that a sickly sweet epiphany? Such power in your feet and at your fingertips such temptation! It would take some act of charity to give all that good stuff away. You'd need to be something greater that just another invention of a spiteful god. — Stephen Kelman

We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent to 11 percent by the year 2000. — Alberto Fujimori