Quotes About Progress

politics over the past decade. The last edition was published in 2001. Since then, there has

he theme of previous editions of The British Polity has been that of continuity

Since 1992, a number of colleges (including some highly specialized colleges) have been awarded

destroy. Change had to take place without doing violence to the existing

themselves were deemed inadequate to meet Britain's fundamental

The car is still the ultimate symbol of German self-belief.

He was going to miss everything. But he guessed that was how everybody always felt. Everyone was losing things, leaving things behind, clinging to old memories as they rushed into the future. Everyone was a passenger on a runaway train.

Som i det gamla ordspråket: 'På en rullande stad växer ingen mossa ...

You have to take the long view, Tom. It isn't only Traction Cities which poison the air and tear up the earth. All cities do that, static or mobile. It's human beings that are the problem. Everything that they do pollutes and destroys.

What's your plan?" "There isn't one," said Hester. "I'm just making it up as I go along.

Livet är rörelse.

You know, sometimes a thing, a system, a creation grows so old, and corrupt, and weighed down by its own baggage, that all you can do is change it. Move on. Start afresh. It's frightening, but it has to be done.

Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of the market economy, he understands morality as that which is conducive to increased activity. The important thing is to keep going.

It is also true, however, that "Egypt" is an internal state of being that we must pass through to achieve freedom and transformation.

As time passes and the relationship grows,

The history of mankind before his birth must be viewed as a preparation for his coming, and the history after his birth as a gradual diffusion of his spirit and progress of his kingdom.

So bleak is the picture... that the bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.

Revolutions, even as they destroy, build on the model of what has gone before.

The railway was part scalpel, part movie camera, slicing the city open, parading its inner workings at fifty frames per second. It was on the S-Bahn that she felt least abandoned, as if the act of travelling turned back the clock, and brought her nearer to the future she had lost.

Problems are there to be solved. How dull life would be without them.

The history of social, political and technological change is inextricably bound to the history of thought.

The history of social, political and technological change is inextricably bound to the history of thought. To

scientist and science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke famously observed, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.