Quotes About Progress

Transform Yourself to Transform the World

Since World War II, we have known that the old man—the consuming man, the purely technological man, the wholly materialistic man—must die. Our problem has been that no one better has come forward to take his place.

Grace Lee Boggs

we must view the present period as one of liberation—from the teleological view of progress, from the dehumanization of the industrial age, and from the burdens of empire. This is a period that provides every one of us with the opportunity to participate in a drama of world-historic political and cultural implications.

Don't focus on what happened, focus on what you will do next.

The only recognizable feature of hope is action.

This is happening.

Then I got out of the bubble.

Se aprendesse qualquer coisa, necessitaria aprender mais, e nunca ficaria satisfeito.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of evolution.

One of the broadest claims of this book is that there will be no further progress in philosophy or the arts without an explicit embrace of the autonomous thing-in-itself.

The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.

Language aren't created in a day; some have evolved over hundreds, even thousands of years, and are still evolving. The user of any language must constantly invent to adapt to fresh circumstances, and when invention flags they must borrow.

This is our country, and this is our past, and we are the present, and these young people are the future.

Today's Tuesday. You were Monday.

The Emperor tells us that civilization will only achieve perfection when the last stone of the last church falls upon the last priest.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future." - Warmaster Horus

There are no compasses for journeying in time.

Try for perfect communication, but give yourself a break if you're not there yet.

Culture matters for reasons good and bad. First, it is the place to discover advantage, opportunity, and innovation.

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

If in Los Angeles in 1949 he had preached "fast and loud," by the time he got to New York in 1957 he had learned to dial down the speed and let the microphone do the heavy lifting.

All things good to know are difficult to learn.

The beginning is the half of every action.