Quotes About Progress

Worlds had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow. . . .

Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

A grapefruit is ionly a lemon that saw an oppurtunity and took advantage of it.

Amar es superarse

The one charm of the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over, they propose to continue it. If

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

One cannot launch a new history — the idea is altogether unthinkable; there would not be the continuity and tradition. Tradition cannot be contrived or learned. In its absence one has, at the best, not history but 'progress' — the mechanical movement of a clock hand, not the sacred succession of interlinked events.

The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world history means, however, to know human beings as they have been and always will be. There is a vast difference, which most people will never comprehend, between viewing future history as it will be and viewing it as one might like it to be. Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals ...

Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.

All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers.

The development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all.

what we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow

Jokaisen rakkauden voittaa uusi rakkaus.

Everything changes Everything flows. What we were or are Tomorrow we will not be.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Thus earth of late so rude, So shapeless, man, till now unknown, became.

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.

I grew up having to piss in a bucket 'cos there was no indoor shitter, and now I have these computerised Japanese super-loo things that have heated seats and wash and blow-dry your arse at the touch of a button. Give it a couple of years and I'll have a bog with a robot arm that pulls out my turds, so I don't have to strain.

You've got to try and take things to the next level, or you'll just get stuck in a rut.

the march of civilisation has given the modern girl a vocabulary and an ability to use it which her grandmother never had

Within chaos lies opportunity.