There is...a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied...by better cars on longer credit terms.
Adlai E. StevensonRead
The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
Interpretation
What this quote means
While humanity has made advancements in various fields, it remains flawed and unchanged in its core nature.
Adlai E. Stevenson highlights a paradox of human development in this quote. Despite our significant progress in technology, science, and other areas, the fundamental aspects of human nature, such as our capacity for conflict, greed, and cruelty, have not improved. This suggests that advancements in external measures do not necessarily translate to moral or ethical growth within humanity itself.
Themes
HumanityProgressNatureImprovementFlaws
In practice
Example use cases
During a speech on social issues, one might use this quote to provoke thought on humanity's continuous shortcomings despite technological advances.
More from Adlai E. Stevenson
All quotes βWhat a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
Adlai E. StevensonRead
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
Adlai E. StevensonRead
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai E. StevensonRead
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Adlai E. StevensonRead
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai E. StevensonRead
Similar quotes
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Jose Ortega Y GassetRead
It is not within the character of a believer to curse, to damn, to speak or act improperly.
MuhammadRead
It's totally irrational, patently insane to condemn an entire race - to despise an entire nation - to vilify an entire religion.
Stan LeeRead
Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.
Aldous HuxleyRead
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, - who is good? Not that men are ignorant, - what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.
W. E. B. Du BoisRead
Golf is typical capitalist luncay.
George Bernard ShawRead