Quotes About Progress

But the comfortable life is a slippery slope toward the consumer life.

find a balance between building a new world and helping to save the existing one.

hadn't the agrarian Wendell Berry written, "How could we divorce ourselves completely and yet responsibly from the technologies and powers that are destroying our planet? The answer is not yet thinkable.

It's easier to radicalize an institution than it is to radicalize yourself

The distance doesn't matter. Just think about your next step.

How much farther?" "The distance doesn't matter. Just think about your next step.

the two steps back (the falling) are as important as the three steps forward.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue; and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.

All the modern inconveniences.

A man with a new idea is a crank -- until the idea succeeds.

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

Memories and hope are not so different; one is "having done" the other is "to do." Neither constitutes action. You are what you do; thus, if you do nothing, you are nobody. If you once did great things, you think you are great. You coast along on dead, preserved laurels, lifeless and wasting away.

It's very easy to turn a toy into an adult toy: Location, location, location.

When I got up I stuck to my plan - stumbling forward and getting hit in the face.

I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.

I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.