I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking. Progress is obviously the antithesis of independent thinking. For under independent or individualistic thinking, every man starts at the beginning, and goes, in all probability, just as far as his father before him. But if there really be anything of the nature of progress, it must mean, above all things, the careful study and assumption of the whole of the past.
G.K. ChestertonTags: progress independent-thinking
I clenched my teeth and fists to stop them biting and scratching these clever men who want no care for the helpless sick small, who use religions and politics to stay comfortably superior to all that pain: who make religions and politics, excuses to spread misery with fire and sword and how could I stop all this? I did not know what to do.
Alasdair GrayTags: politics progress change religion feminism frustration patriarchy
Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain present.
Donald HaringtonTags: past present progress change
Progress is hard on history.
Justina ChenProgress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.
Richard John NeuhausTags: intelligence progress freedom think slavery
A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.
Bryant McGillTags: success progress learning mistakes lessons errors making-mistakes
So we are steaming along without any landmark; we can't gauge our speed. We are making progress and yet nothing is changing. It's not navigation but dreaming.
Albert CamusTags: progress lost the-fall camus dreaming-of-amelia
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
Norman Vincent PealeTags: progress adventure mistakes boldness bold
We're better off. But I don't know if the world's better off. I don't know if the two are the same thing.
Rachel CohnTags: progress world improvement better-off
Now I have very little respect for the electoral system in the United States. I could have respected it in the early days, when the country was small and we had small population. The system that we have in the United States was set up at a time when the total population was the population of Tennessee. We've stretched it to try to make it work for different kind of problems and in stretching and adapting it, we've lost its meaning. We still have the form but not the meaning. There's a lot of things that we have to look at critically that might have been useful at one time that are no longer useful I think there's some good in everything. There's some bad in everything. But there's so little good in some things that you know for practical purposes they're useless. They're beyond salvation. There's so much good in some things, even though there's bad, that we build on that.
Myles HortonTags: politics progress democracy facades electoral-system
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