Henrik Wright Quotations

I am a provocative pessimist and my point of departure is that politicians and decision-makers must be made to give serious consideration to the consequences of development and make a real effort to change the direction of certain trends. In that case, we may be able to avoid a truly disastrous outcome for ourselves.

To a growing degree, it is not governments, but rather quite different forces that decide the fate of humankind.

That thing that is sometimes called the responsibility of intellectuals is the responsibility of every decent person.