Quotes About Progress

Say not an end,' said Maerad in the same language, surprising herself for she felt as if another voice spoke within her, 'say rather another beginning'.

Knowledge, after all, could not be unlearned.

Her brother had not yet learned that, in the end, nothing ever stayed the same. Least of all people.

Puedes tomar decisiones mejores tomando decisiones no tan buenas y luego corrigiéndolas.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.                                                    George F. Will

Don't look to where you've come from. Look to where you're going.

the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could be the bottom of the valley, the beginning of the long climb up the far slope, and when a man had once begun that climb he never looked back to that other side.

We, ironically known as the civilizados - in practically everything that matters they're a damned sight more civilized than we are - bring them so-called progress, which harms them, so-called change, which harms them, so-called civilization, which harms them even more, and desease, which kills them.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

the future gives birth to the present

Our minds must make an enormous effort to find the natural sweetness of life in its fullness. The way back is at least as long as the one that brought us here. For Hobbes and Locke nature is near and unattractive, and mans movement into society was easy and unambiguously good. For Rousseau nature is distant and attractive, and the movement was hard and divided man.

The history of liberal thought since Locke and Smith has been one almost unbroken decline in philosophic substance.

The first discipline modernitys originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

Unlike her, nothing had yet happened to him.

O presente é positivo, ocupemo-nos dele primeiro, que o futuro por sua vez virá.

Cuando la ley de amor y de caridad sea la ley de la humanidad, ya no habrá egoísmo: el débil y el pacífico ya no serán explotados ni pisoteados por el fuerte y el violento. Tal será el estado de la Tierra cuando, según la ley del progreso y la promesa de Jesús, venga a ser un mundo feliz por la expulsión de los malos.

On the side of the Union," Lincoln said, it is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men—to lift artificial weights from all shoulders—to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all—to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life.70

Eight hours after putting out a cigarette, you are 97% nicotine-free. After just three days of not smoking, you are 100% nicotine-free.

The status quo is not a likely option- we will improve our world or we will destroy it

America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

The dog and the butler could go, but the rest had serious potential.

La vida es eso que sucede mientras haces planes.

The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.