Quotes About Progress

Historically, the developement of machines had amplified man's ability to destroy.

When one flowers dies, another is born.

Without mankind machines are nothing.

The afternoon wore away.

At breakfast-time, however, destiny's preparations were still not quite complete

What he said was, they're finding so many new groups and sub-groups that in ten or twenty years you'll be able to identify a chap straight away just by his blood, like as if it was his fingerprints.

Over hill, over dale, we have hit the dusty trailAnd those caissons go rolling along.

Roosevelt remarked on the anomaly whereby man, as he progressed from savagery to civilization, used up more and more of the world's resources, yet in doing so tended to move to the city, and lost his sense of dependence on nature.

We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.

It is true, as the champions of the extremists say, that there can be no life without change, and that to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life. It is no less true, however, that change may mean death and not life, and retrogression instead of development.

we forget to appreciate what it meant for people to escape from the wages of medieval times to incomes two or three times the medieval level, as most people in Britain, America, France, and the German lands came to enjoy in the 19th century.

and attitudes that would enable and encourage attempts at

Output per worker in England did not increase at all between 1500 and 1800, according to the estimates by Angus Maddison in his 2006 volume The World Economy, a trusted source.

seen as paving the way for an age of innovation.

flourishing comes from the experience of the new: new situations, new problems, new insights, and new ideas to develop and share.

But times do change and move continually.

Gay life is this object out there that's waiting to be written about. A lot of people think we've exhausted all the themes of gay fiction, but we've just barely touched on them.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.

Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.

Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.

Things used to be plain and simple; you did a thing and you knew how it would turn out. But not now. The world was changing.

Whoever heard of a woman having to enter her house past a row of guns! These weren't Indian days—pioneer scalping days.

That's it! We belong to the nineteen hundreds, Vaughan, and Dike and Lina and even Madam, old as she is. But Mike and Reggie and kids like that, why, they're demi-siècle, they're half century, they belong to the two thousands. It scares you, it sounds so far away—but not to them. They'll have the job of fixing up all our mistakes, the demi-siècle boys and girls will. We're tail end of an era.