Quotes About Progress

We have made cities out of our suburbs, and now, with the corporate drift form urban centers, are beginning to make suburbs out of our cities.

Actually, therapy isn't just about feeling better - it's about getting better, which usually involves feeling worse for a while.

It started small, as such fates often do.

Don't ever wish the past was different than it is. It's always what brought you here. And here is where you are.

What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing?

We do not always respond to shocks with regression. Sometimes, in the face of crisis, we grow up—fast.

And yet these protests have also shown that saying no is not enough. If opposition movements are to do more than burn bright and then burn out, they will need a comprehensive vision for what should emerge in the place of our failing system, as well as serious political strategies for how to achieve those goals.

Creative destruction is our middle name, both within our own society and abroad. We tear down the old order every day, from business to science, literature, art, architecture, and cinema to politics and the law … . They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission. —Michael Ledeen, The War Against the Terror Masters, 2002

It's not yet clear which side will win many of the struggles outlined in these pages—only that the companies in the crosshairs are up against far more than they bargained for. There have, however, already been some solid victories, too many to fully catalogue here.

In Argentina, urban poverty plummeted from 54.7 percent in 2003 to 6.5 percent in 2011, according to government data collected by the U.N.

emissions while raising people's quality of life. We have only a decade.

We need to remember that the work of our time is bigger than climate change. We need to be setting our sights higher and deeper. What we're really talking about, if we're honest with ourselves, is transforming everything about the way we live on this planet.

The bottom line is this: As we get clean, we have to get fair. More than that, as we get clean, we can begin to redress the founding crimes of our nations: Land theft, genocide, slavery.

In truth, the intergovernmental body entrusted to prevent "dangerous" levels of climate change has not only failed to make progress over its twenty-odd years of work (and more than ninety official negotiation meetings since the agreement was adopted), it has overseen a process of virtually uninterrupted backsliding.

O]urs is a culture of the perpetual present, one that deliberately severs itself from the past that created us as well as the future we are shaping with our actions.

Building a livable world isn't rocket science; it's far more complex than that. - Ed Ayres

Step one for getting out of a hole: Stop digging. - KC Golden

No matter how hard you've worked, there's always something to worry about.

consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds

So I put together a street-going rig and came up with the courier.

each one of them was a story whose unhappy ending hadn't been written yet, and in its place I'd inscribed one line with my own hand: And then they graduated from the Scholomance.

En zo begon het hortend en stotend over de startbaan te rollen als een half afgebouwd vliegtuig dat letterlijk door een aantal mensen omhoog en bijeen werd gehouden terwijl anderen nog de wielen, de vleugels en de stoelen aan het monteren waren en de stuurinstallatie en de motor op orde probeerden te brengen, terwijl weer anderen er met de bagage in hun armen achteraan renden.

why are we so monumentally slow?

Last year we thought this year would be better and this year last year looks pretty good.