Quotes About Progress

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward.

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

The revolution does not need historians.

At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators.

It is not he who makes no mistakes that is intelligent. There are no such men, nor can there be. It is he whose errors are not very grave and who is able to rectify them easily and quickly that is intelligent.

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

These last eight years…

I have some rules of my own. One of them is never to regret anything. Over time, I came to the conclusion that this was the right thing to do. As soon as you start regretting and looking back, you start to sour. You always have to think about the future. You always have to look ahead. Of course you have to analyze your past mistakes, but only so that you can learn and correct the course of your life.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or never inventors.

Better is the enemy of good.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

O what fine times, this age of iron!

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

No matter: Man always hopes; Life always hopes. When a definite object cannot be outlined, the indomitable spirit of hope still impels the living mass to move toward something--something that shall somehow be better. What

Every Anarchist, as an Anarchist, would be perfectly willing to surrender his own scheme directly, if he saw that another worked better. For