Quotes About Progress

The multiplication of technologies in the name of efficiency is actually eradicating free time by making it possible to maximize the time and place for production and minimize the unstructured travel time in between. New timesaving technologies make most workers more productive, not more free, in a world which seems to be accelerating around them.

Alguna vez las revoluciones fueron lo que pensamos que serían?

Conservatives are now largely fighting rearguard actions. They are trying to reassemble a world that never really existed quite as they imagine it (and to the extent that it did, it existed at the expense of all the people—the vast majority of us—forced to disappear, into the closet, the kitchen, segregated space, invisibility and silence). Thanks

seized power nowhere, but nonetheless changed everything.

The body is nothing more than a parcel in transit, a chess piece dropped on another square, it does not move but is moved.

Utopia is on the horizon," declares Eduardo Galeano. "When I walk two steps, it takes two steps back. I walk ten steps and it is ten steps further away. What is utopia for? It is for this, for walking." Judeo-Christian

What is happening here eats out the heart of the city from the inside: the infrastructure is for the most part being added to rather than torn down, but the life within it is being drained away, a siphoning off of diversity, cultural life, memory, complexity. What remains will look like the city that was—or like a brighter, shinier, tidier version of it—but what it contained will be gone. It will be a hollow city.

Saying that everything is fine or that it will never get any better are ways of going nowhere or of making it impossible to go anywhere. Either approach implies that there is no road out or that, if there is, you don't need to or can't go down it.

my admiration for this fearlessly unapologetic new generation of feminists and human rights activists is vast.

but embracing or resisting are optional, and metamorphosis inevitable.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which humanity is always heading," wrote Oscar Wilde

he aprendido que cierta cantidad de dudas sobre las propias posibilidades suponen una buena herramienta para corregir, comprender, escuchar y progresar, aunque demasiadas pueden ser paralizantes y la total confianza en uno mismo produce idiotas arrogantes.

Marriage equality is a threat: to inequality. It's a boon to everyone who values and benefits from equality. It's for all of us.

Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am as little able to understand my environment as any primitive woman who thinks that a waterfall is inhabited by a spirit, and indeed less so, for her opinion might from a poetical point of view be correct.

A city that had learned to make good bread had learned to make good cake also. A city that built itself up by good sense and industry had formed a powerful secondary intention of elegance.

but it is not what one does so much as the way that while one does it time runs past forever.

What would the United States be like if it had not those reservoirs of triumphant will-power, the historical facts of the War of Independence, of the giant American statesmen, and of the pioneering progress into the West, which every American citizen has at his mental command and into which he can plunge for revivification at any minute? To have a difficult history makes, perhaps, a people who are bound to be difficult in any conditions, lacking these means of refreshment.

It struck her that the difference between men and women is the rock on which civilization will split before it can reach any goal that could justify its expenditure of effort.

She had treated her life as a room that had to be completely refurnished.

Time flies, but if I am willing to fly with it, then I can be airborne, too.

Buadhann an thoighde ar an gcinneamhain.

De ontdekking van de toekomst is de ontdekking van het verleden.

Zu wie vielen Horizonten ich auch aufgebrochen bin, die Belohnung lag jeweils im Streben selbst.

For me, success is not measured at the end of life. A successful life is what you have when you are doing things. There are moments when I overcome difficulties, and that's when I feel strong and fulfilled. My success, my life, was nothing more than turning ideas into reality.