Quotes About Progress

No era una vergüenza el no saber, sino solo una señal que podía llevar hacia una nueva verdad.

So you think that zero was there waiting for us when humans came into being, like the flowers and the stars? You should have more respect for human progress. We made the zero, through great pain and struggle.

Time is a great healer. It just flows on all of its own accord.

Unable to turn back the clock, they let themselves be turned.

I think hunting used to be important for human survival. THat's no longer the case, but they can't stop. A human being, perhaps, is made of many nonsensical movements. But they've forgotten the movements necessary for life. These humans are manipulated by what remains of their memories.

The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.

I'm still learning my craft.

The stations of life are not places to inhabit. Rather, they are moments of opportunity that will not repeat themselves.

Life has rules, Omar, and without some of them, humanity would return to the Stone Age.

El polvo ha cubierto de tierra los huertos, ha cegado las miradas y puesto cemento a las ideas

Oftentimes the child is the father of the man.

I fundamentally believe that if you empower people, you can move mountains. I fundamentally believe that if people are given a fair go, the world's a better place, people are happier individually and society progresses.

the far right where politicians are spending so much energy harvesting votes these days is not Australia. Nearly all of us are somewhere else, scattered around the centre, waiting for a government that will take this good, prosperous, generous country into the future.

A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up.

If we don't remember where we came from, we'll go back there.

They used to build locomotives in Gateshead, very fine complicated powerful locomotives, but they never seem to have had time to build a town'.

For capitalism to develop, customary ties between people and the land must be severed, and communal obligations among people disrupted.

Even ordinary people like us, we also need the tools for transformation.

When our understanding of an idea develops to the point that it changes our behavior.

we can allow the perfect to become the enemy of the good.

It is interesting how, once you have decided to strike out on a new course of action, events often transpire to help you. Not always in an obvious fashion, or immediately. And sometimes in ways you would never have considered.

All of us have to start somewhere. Where you start is unimportant. What matters is where you finish.

We can turn our suffering into the cause of extraordinary growth.

When we see for ourselves there is a problem, change becomes much easier.