Quotes About Progress

A volte penso che ci sia un rapporto tra il decadimento dell'umanità e la prosperità e il benessere in cui viviamo. La prosperità e il benessere sono obiettivi anche necessari che il genere umano persegue nella sua lotta per il progresso, ma generano profonde e temibili contraddizioni. Il genere umano sta infatti distruggendo con le proprie mani alcune delle qualità che possiede.

Le cose del mondo sono come i libri, che vanno sfogliati una pagina per volta. Gli uomini devono guardare avanti ed evitare di rivangare vecchie questioni; i cani devono avanzare con i tempi e fronteggiare la realtà.

Every year, you lose a bit of potential.

The race for excellence has no finish line.

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

You must be the change that you wish to see in the world.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

(On Western civilization) I think it would be a good idea.

Don't think about it. Think, and your actions will betray your thoughts. Don't feel bloodlust. Keep a calm heart. Move forward.

We are all migrants through time.

Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.

Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians.

A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.

The key is this: When people are more numerous and living fuller lives, they become more difficult to regiment and control.

New information technologies are tools—and to have an impact, tools need users, who in turn need goals, direction, and motivation.

Quién está arriba y quién está abajo va a importar cada vez menos en un mundo en el que los que llegan a la cima no permanecen mucho tiempo en ella y cada vez pueden hacer menos cosas con el poder que tienen.