Quotes About Progress

Technology has become the way Western man perceives progress. But technology itself is a reflection of how we see ourselves. If the negativity is in us, it will appear somewhere in our technology.

If we don't go forward, we won't find anything.

They say it has several hundred floors. How do you get to the top? With a ladder called an elevator. To get to the top floor, you board the elevator early in the morning and you reach your floor by sunset.

Like they say: a pimple on a blister, a blister on a boil.

Just be careful, Mendl, that you don't turn into such a great success that I have to send you your carfare again.

new theories and new movements do not develop in a vacuum, they arise to spearhead the necessary social solutions to new problems resulting from contradictions in the environment.

Time goes from present to past.

When I began making movies, the only crew jobs available to women were as script girls and in the editing department. As a result, I still think of movie crews as male. And in fact, they still predominantly are.

The future was clay, to be moulded day by day, but the past was bedrock, immutable.

What had started as idle conversation began to take concrete shape as a plan of action.

Men mold some cities, some cities mold men.

He was like a sponge, erasing the past, soaking up the future.

The future was clay, to be molded day by day, but the past was bedrock, immutable.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

There are no mistakes

Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.

I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind.

we can never give up; we only exchange one thing for another

Individual liberty is not an asset of civilization.

We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with barbarism.