Quotes About Stagnation

The treadmill is a corollary to the suburb and the autotropolis: a device with which to go nowhere in places where there is nowhere to go.

Vassals of an outdated ideology unrelated to the real world, they can, when questioned on this issue, only mumble neoliberal mantras that have delivered the world economic stagnation, rising inequality and global environmental crisis

What a person becomes in such a situation is paralyzed—caught in one long, sustained, intolerable present. Who

It's why the Delta doesn't progress. It's not having anything, and not really wanting anything, because that would mean change. That would mean taking on more responsibility. Too many of our people are not interested in progress and change.

En términos cinematográficos lo que hacemos es ir cambiando el enfoque con lentitud, abriendo el objetivo y alejándonos de esa vida en la que estábamos estancados hasta alcanzar una perspectiva más amplia.

Maybe they just didn't have anywhere they needed to go.

It all seemed grossly unfair. He wanted nothing at all to change

Atata vreme cât cercul vicios nu se va rupe undeva, nu numai ceasul, dar ÅŸi timpul vor sta în loc oprite de firele de nisip.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside.

If Mitch McConnell were a TV show, he would be 'Mad Men,' treating women unfairly, stuck in 1968 and ending this season.

The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.

Man all of your flows bore me, paint drying.

Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.

The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.

From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.

The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.

The trouble with men is that they are mean-they may mean, but they don't move.

The man who will neither play nor do business unless everything is just to his liking and notions, retards rather than contributes to progress.

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.