“Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.”– George Orwell Related Quotes “Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.”– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”– Henry David Thoreau “Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.”– Aldous Huxley