Quotes About Progress

They'd only been here for a couple of years, only employed twenty people all told, their two-year tax holiday was ending. Place

Everybody could be doing something better without their lives. Name me one person who is doing the best, most righteous thing with their life this very minute.

In the United States of 1850, the Industrial Revolution had amped up labor to an astonishing all-time high of 3,650 hours, based on seventy-hour weeks and fifty-two weeks per year.

We didn't want to waste this second chance-- to continue a thread that'd been lost-- to finish a sentence.

Always sailing, sailing, sailing...never quite reaching.

K-k-keep your helmet on. T-t-toothless doing his BEST.

History, you see, is like the interlocking wheels turning in a ticking-thing. Something unexpected happens, some sort of hiccup ... the wheels are jogged... and then they set off again, beating out the time in a new pattern.

Time cannot tick backward

Great Hero though you are, you cannot make the moving hand of time tick backward. None of us can do that

How can you make a fresh start in a new world when you are carrying with you on your boat all the same problems, the same frustrations and inequalities of the old world

after Alvin we would be on board the other boat by now … Didn't

You think civilization is some horrible, polluting human invention that separates us from the state of nature. But civilization doesn't separate us from nature. Civilization protects us from nature.

Tomorrow will use you the way you use today.

What I didn't understand—what I suddenly realized now—was that if I stopped moving backwards, trying to recapture the past, there might be a future waiting for me, waiting for us, a future that would reveal itself if only I turned around and looked, and that once I did, I could start to move toward it.

I didn't want to accept that in order to move forward, I had to walk through it. It was so much easier just to believe there was another path I could take around it and that at the end of that path would be the destination I wanted. It would be easier to want to end up at a lie, instead of the truth.

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always twenty years behind the times. —Mark Twain

I was six years old when Congress gave women the right to vote. I've been waiting for you ever since.

As we enter the path of transformation, the most valuable thing we have working in our favor is our yearning.

You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs ... They thought that just because they were smashing eggs they must be making an omelette

When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.

No creo en el mundo, ni en el dinero, ni en el progreso, ni en el futuro de nuestra civilización. Si es que la humanidad tiene un futuro, tendrá que hacerse muy diferente de como es ahora.

La libertad hermosa y pura de una mujer era infinitamente más maravillosa que cualquier amor sexual. La única desgracia era que los hombres estuvieran tan retrasados en este asunto con respecto a las mujeres. Insistían en la cosa del sexo como perros.

Keep going until something stops you, then keep going.

The best way to learn is through experience. To continue to improve, add to your experience, take small steps, and do it every day.