Years ago Quote by Robert J. Gordon

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

— Howard Rheingold

Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and…

— Ross Garnaut

And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more…

— Anonymous

“Aztec peasants, Babylonian shepherds, Athenian stonemasons, and Carolingian merchants spoke different languages,2 wore different clothing, and prayed to different deities, but they all ate…

— William Rosen

“Technological advancement and wealth are conflated in capitalism with human progress. All aspects of human existence that cannot be measured or quantified—beauty, truth, love,…

— Chris Hedges

“In the frenzy of modern life we lose sight of the real value of humanity. People become the sum total of what they produce.…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“thousand years ago the average life expectancy of mankind was only twenty-five years. It took another nine hundred years to extend that to thirty-seven.…

— James Rollins

A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with the same…

— Jeremy Rifkin

“All around us we see a level of individual wealth unequaled since the early years of the 20th century.”

— Tony Judt

For thousands of years, until about 1850, you see humans accumulating more and more power by the invention of new technologies and by new…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“But following these Stone Age discoveries, progress was slow. It is estimated that in terms of the standard of living, things were pretty much…

— Rodney Stark

There is no real wealth but the labor of people. Were the mountains of gold and silver, the world would not be one grain…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley