Quotes About Progress

A todo eso se le llama entonces "cambio estructural". Le llamarían neoliberalismo después.

Un día que no alcanzamos a ver nos despertaremos en un país genuinamente republicano y ejemplarmente democrático. No es el país donde estamos, sino a medias, según las sumas de bienes y males que cada quien quiera hacer para medir el país moderno a medias, eternamente inacabado, en que vivimos.

Crear un país de leyes significa arrancar esa costumbre de un sector todavía amplio de la sociedad mexicana.

En la repetición del atraso no hay oportunidad ninguna.

tirar para arriba

overcoming obstacles [tirando para arriba

The new history is coming; it's not a dream, though it do beyond men's imagination, and for good reason. It's going them of their conceptual orthopedics, beginning with the de their enticement machine.

The happiest thing that can be said about democracy... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility.

Everything has to be at once for six-month-old puppies, six-year-old children, and reformers of any age.

H. Beam Piper

is devoted to civilization or anything else outside himself, and that's the mark of the barbarian.

went across the more civilized Third

People have to learn to live with newly-discovered facts; if they don't, they die of them.

If you want to make an omelet, you have to break eggs.

Puedes estar seguro, Alfredo, que si hay una cosa en nuestra época que se revela como un decreto de Dios, es que las masas han de levantarse y ocupar el puesto superior las clases inferiores.

He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes."

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

The Shape of Things to Come.