Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

Your system was liable to periodical convulsions...business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

My faith in the future rests squarely on the belief that man, if he doesn't first destroy himself, will find new answers in the universe, new technologies, new…

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. That is not the sort of belief that indicates real faith.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.