Quotes About Progress

Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

Change is the hallmark of nature. Nothing remains the same.

Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.

In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.

Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.

Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.

Artists have made innovations in many areas... But whatever the nature of an artist's innovation, its importance ultimately depends on the extent of its influence on other artists.

Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.

Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.

In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.

It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.' -Nurse Greta You can't change human nature without first changing the law.' -Nurse Yvonne

Human nature is largely something that has to be overcome.