Quotes About Progress

The cultural standard of an intelligent people sinks as its standard of living rises.

Llámanse progresos los preparativos de las catástrofes.

It is possible to inculcate in the contemporary bourgeois any stupid idea in the name of progress and to sell him any grotesque object in the name of art.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.

Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.

Society is not, as is commonly supposed, the development of nature, but rather her dismantling and entire recasting. It is a second building made from the ruins of the first.

A man begins every stage of his life as a novice.

The truth was that as my pocket had strengthened, my head had weakened.

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

That as a human being I'm not necessarily static, but... evolving. That I'm supposed to grow and develop, just like the physical world, the planet, the universe.

She, too, could become someone else. Eventually. Or she'd told herself all these years.

You're on a journey whether you want to be or not.

Peace is an attitude; change is the action.

We cannot hope for change, without action.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.

Change brings opportunity.

Goals are simply a way of breaking a vision into smaller, workable units.

May the future you create exceed your fondest expectations.

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.

Training is anchored in the past. Education looks to the future.

Many people are unable to prepare for the future because they are too busy reliving the past.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true.