Quotes About Progress

he beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He asserted in his conscience, that all this had been good. What

Rien ne peut arrêter une idée dont l'heure est venue.

It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awake that slumbering Progress.

In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

The counterfeits of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future.

Stronger than all the armies is an idea whose time has come.

Ce que Paris conseille, l'Europe le médite ; ce que Paris commence, l'Europe le continue.

Let us live, by all means. But let us try to ensure that death is a progress. Let us aspire to worlds that are less dark. Let us follow the conscience that leads us there.

architecture is dead, with no ghost to return, killed by the printed book because it did not last as long and cost more.

It is the features of the years that makes up the face of the century.

Ricordatevi, signore: la rivoluzione francese ha avuto le sue ragioni. [...] Sì, le brutalità del progresso si chiamano rivoluzioni. Quando sono finite, si riconosce questo: che il genere umano è stato maltrattato, ma ha camminato.

They wanted an end to oppression, an end to tyranny, an end to the sword, work for men, instruction for the child, social sweetness for the woman, liberty, equality, fraternity, bread for all, the idea for all, the Edenizing of the world. Progress; and that holy, sweet, and good thing, progress, they claimed in terrible wise, driven to extremities as they were, half naked, club in fist, a roar in their mouths. They were savages, yes; but the savages of civilization.

Cuando la ciencia todavía soñaba, la poesía ya actuaba

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In the early ages, the social edifice rested on three columns, the priest, the king and the headsman. It is a long time since a voice exclaimed, "The gods have departed!" Lately another voice has cried, "The kings have departed!" It is now full time that a third voice shall be raised to say, "The executioner must go!

As revoluções nascem, não de um acidente, mas da necessidade. Ela existe porque é preciso que ela exista.

O progresso é a vida permanente dos povos.

Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task.

You can't stop an idea whose time has come.

No dia em que nós não lhes formos mais convenientes, que nos anulem, mas até então ajudem-nos a caminhar.

La historia de las ciudades se refleja en sus cloacas.

CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES

An inward growth seemed to be in progress within him. He was conscious of a sort of natural enlargement, which gave him two things that were new to him — his father and his country.