Aftermath Quote by Lester B. Pearson

If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint, one big…

— Robert Wright

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to…

— Dinesh D'Souza

There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth…

— Ludwig von Mises

Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten…

— Thomas Huxley

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into…

— Alex Campbell

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

— Ludwig von Mises

“The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but…

— George Orwell

All progress means war with society.

— George Bernard Shaw

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary technical development and destructiveness of the instruments of war.

— Rosa Luxemburg

“War may be the most efficient stimulus of innovation and technological advance,”

— Jack L. Chalker

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper…

— Henry George