115 Quotes by Alvin Toffler

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

Industrial vomit...fills our skies and seas. Pesticides and herbicides filter into our foods. Twisted automobile carcasses, aluminum cans, non-returnable glass bottles and synthetic plastics form immense middens in our midst as more and more of our detritus resists decay. We do not even begin to know what to do with our radioactive wastes - whether to pump them into the earth, shoot them into outer space, or pour them into the oceans. Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.

A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.

Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.

The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.

The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.

It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.

You cannot get a new economy without a new society.