c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
All of us—employers, parents, schools, government agencies, and interns themselves—are complicit in the devaluing of work, the exacerbation of social inequality, and the disillusionment of young people in the workplace that are emerging as a result of the intern boom. Informal, barely studied, and little regulated, internships demand our scrutiny. We need a view of the entire sprawling system and its history, a glimpse of its curious blend of privilege and exploitation; we need to hear from interns themselves, and also from those who proffer internships, the people who sell them, the few who work to improve them, an the many who are unable to access them at all. only then can we consider ethical, legal alternatives to a system that is broken, a practice that is often poisonous.
— Ross Perlin
Why do we need so many people on Earth? I ask you. What are they good for? They live out ludicrous lives of pointless desperation. Ninety-nine percent of the human population is so much wasted resources. Stubborn vermin, we humans are.Granted, in the past, the unwashed masses were necessary. We needed them to till our fields and fight our wars. We needed them to labor in our factories making consumer crap that we flipped back at them at a handsome profit.Alas, those days are gone. We live in a boutique economy now. Energy is abundant and cheap. Mentars and robotic labor make and manage everything. So who needs people? People are so much dead white. They eat up our profits. They produce nothing but pollution and social unrest. They drive us crazy with their pissing and moaning. I think we can all agree that Corporation Earth is in need of a serious downsizing....The boutique economy has no need of the masses, so let's get rid of them. But how, you ask? Not with wars, surely, or disease, famine, or mass murder. Despots have tried all these methods through the millennia, and they're never a permanent solution.No, all we need to do is buy up the ground from under their feet -- and evict them. We're buying up the planet, Bishop, fair and square. We're turning it into the most exclusive gated community in history. Now, the question is, in two hundred years, will you be a member of the landowners club, or will you be living in some tin can in outer space drinking recycled piss?
— David Marusek, Mind Over Ship
The genuine object of debate raised by the [2008 financial] crisis ought to be how to overcome the short-termism to which we have been led by a consumerism intrinsically destructive of all genuine investment in the future, a short-termism which has systematically, and not accidentally, been translated into decomposition of investment into speculation.
— Bernard Stiegler
Mathematics brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately it also brought mortis.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
If economics were only about profit maximization, it would be just another name for business administration. It is a social discipline, and society has other means of cost accounting besides market prices.
— Dani Rodrik, The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
— Ludwig von Mises, Nation, State, and Economy
We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength,
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
... toxic derivatives were underpinned by toxic economics, which, in turn, were no more than motivated delusions in search of theoretical justification; fundamentalist tracts that acknowledged facts only when they could be accommodated to the demands of the lucrative faith. Despite their highly impressive labels and technical appearance, economic models were merely mathematized versions of the touching superstition that markets know best, both at times of tranquility and in periods of tumult.
— Yanis Varoufakis, The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy
The economics we need is of the "seminar room" variety, not the "rule-of-thumb" kind. It is an economics that recognizes its limitations and caveats and knows that the right message depends on the context. The fine print is what economists have to contribute.
— Dani Rodrik, The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy
As if it were Injustice to sell dearer than we buy; or to give more to a man than he merits. The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the Appetite of the Contractors: and therefore the just value, is that which they be contented to give.
— Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
...The reason why we’re strippers, is invariably more boring, more grounded in nonexistential needs like money—and pragmatic concerns, like money.
— Ruth Fowler, Girl, Undressed: On Stripping in New York City
It is a curious thought that the earliest description of the steam-engine in antiquity describes its use for the magic opening of the temple doors, when the priests lit the fires on the altars, to deceive the populace into ascribing to a deity what was the work of the engineer. In much the same way today, the almost boundless fecundity of the creative scientific discoveries and inventions of the age are being appropriated for the purpose of the mysterious opening of doors into the holy of holies of the temples of mammon by a hierarchy of imposters and humbugs, whom it is the first task of a sane civilization to expose and clear out.
— Frederick Soddy, The Role of Money: What It Should Be, Contrasted with What It Has Become
Ideology follows the money.""Governments don't protect people, people protect governments.""To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war.
— Lawrence Samuels
Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers, landowners have been the most capable, most intrepid, and most assertive members of civilized society.
— David Marusek, Mind Over Ship
The financial markets are not to be trusted. They expect to be given free reign to make huge profits while the sun is shining, but hasten to the shelter of the state when the skies darken.
— Peter Stalker
If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God’s law is wrong. Therefore the State should remove the causes of that burden. The human must not be limited and controlled to fit the economic, but the economic must be expanded to fit the human.
— Fulton J. Sheen
When we must pay the true price for the depletion of nature’s gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic logic will reinforce, and not contradict, our heart’s desire to treat the world with reverence and, when we receive nature’s gifts, to use them well.
— Charles Eisenstein, Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness. At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or – this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms – with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution. The changes in the economic foundation lead sooner or later to the transformation of the whole immense superstructure.
— Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance.
— Ernst F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that?
— Richard D. Wolff
The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for some, but it's privation for the rest of America; it steals from what we could be and can do. In Econ 101, they teach that the big-picture fight over national priorities is guns versus butter. Now it's butter versus margarine—guns get a pass.Overall, we're weaker for it, and at enormous cost.
— Rachel Maddow, Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
ECONOMICS IS HAUNTED by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant in, say, physics, mathematics or medicine—the special pleading of selfish interests.
— Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
(1) Use mathematics as shorthand language, rather than as an engine of inquiry. (2) Keep to them till you have done. (3) Translate into English. (4) Then illustrate by examples that are important in real life (5) Burn the mathematics. (6) If you can’t succeed in 4, burn 3. This I do often.
— Alfred Marshall
Modern prophets say that our economics have failed us. No! It is not our economics which have failed; it is man who has failed-man who has forgotten God. Hence no manner of economic or political readjustment can possibly save our civilization; we can be saved only by a renovation of the inner man, only by a purging of our hearts and souls; for only by seeking first the Kingdom of God and His Justice will all these other things be added unto us.
— Fulton J. Sheen, The Prodigal World
All love is socioeconomic. It’s the gradients in status that make arousal possible.
— Gary Shteyngart
Politicians have often declared that unbridled competition among financial intermediaries promotes failures that will harm the public. Although the evidence that competition does this is extremely weak, it has not stopped the state and federal governments from imposing many restrictive regulations.
— Frederic S. Mishkin, The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets
... economists recognize that, other things equal, cuts in tax rates reduce tax revenues in percentage terms by less than the tax-rate reductions. Similarly, tax-rate increases do not raise tax revenues by as much in percentage terms as the tax-rate increases. This is true because changes in marginal tax rates alter taxpayer behavior and thus affect taxable income.
— Campbell R. McConnell, Economics
Savings, remember, is the prerequisite of investment.
— Campbell R. McConnell, Economics
In the lean approach, companies are taught that prices are set by the market and that one way to improve profit margin is to reduce costs. This thinking flies in the face of "cost plus" thinking, where we look first at our own costs and set prices based on our desired profit margin. The reality is that most companies whether manufacturers or hospitals, do not have market power to set prices as they wish.
— Mark Graban, Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction
the euro, it seems, is stuck in a political no man's land – trapped between two opposing world views. And the battleground is not economics, but ethics.
— Martin Cohen
Life is like a curve, horizontally or vertically, we are at origin point
— Estiana Cahyawati
Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.
— Anna Lappé
We must realize that growth is but an adolescent phase of life which stops when physical maturity is reached. If growth continues in the period of maturity it is called obesity or cancer. Prescribing growth as the cure for the energy crisis has all the logic of prescribing increasing quantities of food as a remedy for obesity.
— Albert A. Bartlett
Overborrowing or overlending? Lenders encourage indebtedness because it is profitable. Developing country governments are sometimes even pressured to overborrow ... Even without corruption, it is easy to be influenced by Western businessmen and financiers ... Countries that aren't sure that borrowing is worth the rist are told how important it is to establis a credit rating: borrow even if you really don't need the money.
— Joseph E. Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work
Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.
— Christopher Caudwell, Illusion and Reality: A Study of the Sources of Poetry
[Economics] is all about observing the world with genuine curiosity and admitting that it is full of mysteries
— Steven E. Landsburg, Armchair Economist: Economics & Everyday Life
I became convinced that the advanced industrial countries, through international organizations like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the World Bank, were not only not doing all that they could to help these [developing] countries but were sometimes making their life more difficult. IMF programs had clearly worsened the East Asian crisis, and the "shock therapy" they had pushed in the former Soviet Union and its satellites played an important role in the failure of the transition.
— Joseph E. Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work
Thirty years ago [written 2009], over-regulation, over-taxation, mis-regulation, statism, state corporatism, and economic folly, cosiness and regulatory capture, and a crescent ideological enemy without, who were assisted by enemies – both fifth columnists and useful fools – within, had led to a crisis of confidence in the West, and in all lands that – and amongst all peoples, particularly those who were oppressed in their own lands, who – loved and desired liberty. Of course, thirty years ago, Britain had Margaret Thatcher to turn to.
— G.M.W. Wemyss
The trouble is, nobody knows exactly how the world really works. We are all fallible people with limited knowledge. It is only through Biblical revelation from the One who knows how the world really works because He made it and actively sustains it that anyone can come to a competent understanding of the world.
— Gary North, Honest Money: Biblical Principles of Money and Banking
The American share of the crisis began with grossly improper mortgages provided to wholly unqualified borrowers, all directly caused and encouraged by government distortion of and interference in the market. The government’s market deformation and market intervention was in turn the result of two factors: political favouritism and Leftist ideology, on the one hand; and upon the other, corruption: the blatant cooption of such Friends of Angelo as Mr Dodd and of such bien-pensant Lefties as Mr Frank. The stability and efficiency of any market is directly proportional to the amount and trustworthiness of market information. The Yank Congress, for blatantly partisan and ideological reasons, gave out false information to the market, pushing lenders into making bad loans and giving out, with the appropriate winks and nudges, that Fannie (will Americans ever realise how that sounds) and Freddie, imperfectly quangoised, were ‘really just as good as the Treasury’ and were in any case ‘too big to [be let] fail’: which, as it happens, was untrue. Similarly, this moronic mantra of ‘too big to fail’ was chanted desperately and loudly to drown out the warning sounds of various financial institutions on the brink and of the automobile industry. Incomprehensible sums of public money were thrown at these corporations so that they could avoid bankruptcy, and have succeeded only in privatising profit whilst socialising risk.
— G.M.W. Wemyss
The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.
— Alan Beattie
A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.
— Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince
I never denied being a fool. That's the difference between us.
— Jennifer A. Nielsen
You stole it from the master.""Who stole it from me. What I did simply set the universe back in order.
— Jennifer A. Nielsen
You eat with your left hand. That's unacceptable. Can you do it with your right?""Can you do it with your left?
— Jennifer A. Nielsen
If he put us in dresses, we wouldn't suddenly become women
— Jennifer A. Nielsen
Afraid of a wooden sword?""Just demonstrating my skills in evading an attack. Impressed?
— Jennifer A. Nielsen
Ask a sage, he will explain.Ask a fool, he will complain.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
Get me a real chair
— Jennifer A. Nielsen
What was with this family, that all the sons were so freaking handsome it hurt to look at them
— Julie Kagawa, The Iron Daughter
Adrian was completely deadpan. 'So. You're saying my sister is dressed like a prostitute.
— Richelle Mead, The Golden Lily
For a moment his eyes locked onto me with an intensity that left me breathless.
— Richelle Mead, The Golden Lily
Valuable lessons were code words for pain that no one apologized for.
— Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince
Hey, Frenchie!” Sage poked his head out the door, the sun hitting the brown of his hair to reveal hidden strands of red. “Did you bring any baguettes?”“Why don’t you go season something, Herb?
— Nalini Singh, Secrets at Midnight
We barely made it inside her room before I pressed her up against the closed door and kissed her until she couldn't breathe, until I couldn't breathe-but who needed air when you had a silken tongue and warm lips and a body that begged to be licked, pinched, stroked.
— Karina Halle, The Devil's Reprise
At the mention of her name, my heart started beating faster. Dawn. Rusty. My muse.
— Karina Halle, The Devil's Reprise
Above all else, I think that you are a compulsive liar."My laughter was tense, but sincere. "Hardly. In fact, I consider myself a compulsive truth teller. It's only that everyone else seems compelled to misunderstand me.
— Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Runaway King
Is it true?" Devlin asked me. "You're Prince Jaron?""KING Jaron, actually. News must travel slower amongst the illiterate." I glared at Gregor with every inch of disdain I felt. "Shouldn't you be groveling to me or bowing or something?" Gregor smiled. "I think before I have the chance, you will already be dead.""Ah. So much for all your toasts to my long life.
— Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Runaway King
And I want you to find something in the hills for the vigils to protect, like a rock or a thornbush. I don't want them around here.
— Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Runaway King
Wherever our lives lead us, one thing is certain. You and I will always be connected. You might be able to deny that, but I can't. Even I am not that good a liar.
— Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Runaway King
I haven't don anything wrong." At least, not for a few hours
— Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Runaway King
What would have been the fate of sages if there were no fools?
— Ogwo David Emenike
She placed a hand on my cheek and softly kissed the other one, then whispered, “Remember this moment, then, Sage, when someone of my status offered a kindness to someone of yours. Because next time we meet, if Darius is dead, I will no longer be anyone of importance.
— Jennifer A. Nielsen
I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
— Carl Sandburg
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.
— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.
— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
— George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.
— Alan Moore, Watchmen
Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.
— Thomas A. Edison, Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison
We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the finer shades of despair are lost to us. We've ceased to be runners. We plod from structure to conveyance to employment and back again. We live within the boundaries that science has determined for us. The measuring stick is short and sweet. The full gamut of life is a brief, shadowy continuum that runs from gray to more gray. The rainbow is bleached. We hardly know how to doubt anymore. (“The Thing”)
— Richard Matheson, Collected Stories, Vol. 1
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.
— Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
— George Orwell
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
— Auguste Comte
There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.
— Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
— George Bernard Shaw, Advice to a Young Critic
If only I had some grease I could fix some kind of a light," Ma considered. "We didn't lack for light when I was a girl before this newfangled kerosene was ever heard of.""That's so," said Pa. "These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraph and kerosene and coal stoves--they're good things to have, but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
— Ernest Renan
An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new market devoted to selling T-shirts and other objects with pictures of the old market. Meanwhile, the people who had operated the little stalls in the old market had gone elsewhere and set up a thing on the edge of town that was now called the New Market even though it was actually the old market.
— Neal Stephenson, Anathem
The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the edge of space that smoke means progress or, at least, people setting fire to things.
— Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals
It takes two or three generations to do what I tried to do in one; and my impulses--affections--vices perhaps they should be called-- were too strong not to hamper a man without advantages; who should be as cold-blooded as a fish and as selfish as a pig to have a really good chance of being one of his country's worthies. You may ridicule me--I am quite willing that you should-- I am a fit subject, no doubt. But I think if you knew what I have gone through these last few years you would rather pity me. And if they knew"--he nodded towards the college at which the dons were severally arriving--"it is just possible they would do the same.
— Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. There is nothing progressive about being pig-headed and refusing to admit a mistake. And I think if you look at the present state of the world it's pretty plain that humanity has been making some big mistake. We're on the wrong road. And if that is so we must go back. Going back is the quickest way on.
— C.S. Lewis, The Case for Christianity
When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
— D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love
[Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
— George Bernard Shaw, Advice to a Young Critic
In other words, I tasted a different drug. A drug called progress.
— Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
— John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga
Progress is something with no pity, and no purpose. It just happens. It chews up all you ever knew, and spits out things you can't understand, and the only value it seems to have is to make a few people a lot of money.
— Spider Robinson, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress could justify such an act; I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it was not necessary and that it was wrong. Therefore, my judgments must be based-on what is right and necessary and not on what people say and do; I must judge not according to progress but according to my own heart.
— Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no such thing.
— Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
Garret went across the street to the library. There was a hole in the sidewalk the size of a bathtub. Construction was being done, was always being done. It was the journey that mattered, Garret thought woozily, the getting-there part. The mayor, and then the president, had begun saying that. "And where are we going?" the mayor had asked. "When will we get there? What will happen to us once we get there?" He really wanted to know.
— Tao Lin, Bed
I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.
— Henry Ford
Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.
— George Monbiot
The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
— G.K. Chesterton
The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.
— Paul Karl Feyerabend
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
— Norbert Wiener
In these days of faith-cures, and hypnotism, and telepathy, and subliminalities – why, the simple old world grows very confusing. But rarely, very rarely novel.
— Walter de la Mare, The Return
An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.
— Terry Eagleton, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate
Whatever you do, be sure to do it well.
— Andrena Sawyer
Progress is discovering what you can do without.
— Marty Rubin
Cynicism is one of the terrible obstacles to progress.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
At the very time when we have been boasting of our enlightenment and knowledge and understanding, there is this tragic breakdown in personal relationships. ... For instance, we now have to have Marriage Guidance classes. Up to this century men and women were married without this expert advice which now seems to be so essential.
— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount
I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking.
— G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
Progress is not accomplished in one stage.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents, Thy continual workshops, foundries, risen or rising, See, from their chimneys how the tall flame-fires stream.
— Walt Whitman
There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards.
— Bram Stoker
love is just a further impetus, not something that will prevent us going forward. We do not realize that those who genuinely wish us well want us to be happy and are prepared to accompany us on that journey.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
We progress a step farther, in each tick of the clock
— Ronnie Cornelisz
Jerusalem was capital of southern Israel, known then as Judah. Isn't it true that there's always a rivalry between north and south? North and South Korea, North and South Vietnam, Northern and Southern Ireland, Yankees and Rebels, uptown and downtown. Somebody please tell me why that is? Maybe southerners get too much sun, like Mr. Sock over there, frying his threads, and northerners don't get enough (although I hardly think northern Israel a cool spot in the shade), but southern peoples--tropical and downtown types--always seem to lean toward decadence, whereas uptown, in the north, progress is favored. Decadence and progress obviously are at odds.
— Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God.
— Eagles
London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a stress greater than they have ever borne before. Under cosmopolitanism, if it comes, we shall receive no help from the earth. Trees and meadows and mountains will only be a spectacle, and the binding force that once exercised on character must be entrusted to Love alone. May Love be equal to the task!
— E.M. Forster, Howard's End
...the history of man is but a history of difficulties overcome – of mysteries made plain...and that Progress, incessant and continued, is the great law of the human race'Dr Henry George Charles Clarke, 1847.Quoted in Champion of the Quarterdeck (2017)
— Dr Henry George Charles Clarke
That’s progress,” McIlveen
— Tim Lebbon, Alien: Invasion
The only real progress in any activity is to love it more and more.
— Marty Rubin
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
— George Bernard Shaw
The true rightist is not a man who wants to go back to this or that institution for the sake of a return; he wants first to find out what is eternally true, eternally valid, and then either to restore or reinstall it, regardless of whether it seems obsolete, whether it is ancient, contemporary, or even without precedent, brand new, "ultramodern." Old truths can be rediscovered, entirely new ones found. The Man of the Right does not have a time-bound, but a sovereign mind.
— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Leftism Revisited: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot
I suppose none of what I'm saying matters. In a few years a search like this won't even be necessary. We have instruments now that can be mounted on the underside of an airplane. To find a man all you have to do is fly over the spot where you think he is, and the machine will register his body heat. Right now there aren't enough of those machines to go around. Most of them are in the war. But when we come home from there, well, a man on the run won't have hope. And a man like me, he won't be needed. This is the last of something. It's too bad. As much as I hate war, I fear the day when machines take the place of men. At least now a man can still get along on his talents.
— David Morrell, First Blood
In the 1940s dams were synonymous with progress, and the rivers were to be conquered with the fervour of a pioneer wielding an axe.
— Tim Palmer, Endangered Rivers and the Conservation Movement
We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with barbarism.
— Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism
Life is all about progress and movements, keep it moving.
— Hopal Green
Some problems were generational
—  you just had to wait for the relevant elders to die off and be replaced with more progressive types.
Here is a good way for the world to make a good progress: Let the less clever nations learn good things from the more clever nations!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Prejudices, mysticism, bigotry these things only distort religion, like they have actually done to the most religions of the world.
— Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
Bring all your power out my friend, and throw away such Gods, such doctrines, such institutions, that impede in the path of human progress.
— Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
A religion that demands absolutely irrefutable obedience, is anything but religion.
— Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
It's not like the Middle Ages, when you had the Church and the aristocracy keeping everything nice and stagnant.
— Kevin Hearne, Hexed
During several centuries Clochemerle, far from the cities and trade routes, had lived in stillness and isolation. But now, at last, the clamour of the great world was crossing the invisible barrier, bringing doubts, temptations, and discontents.
— Gabriel Chevallier, Clochemerle Babylon
Patriotism is about a desire for progress, not a yearning for repetition.
— Gina Barreca
Progress is in simplification, which often follows complexity.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Even a baby step taken is in the right direction is PROGRESS
— - Harrish Sairaman
Looking at him she felt she knew what the people of antiquity had been like. Thirty centuries or more were effaced, and there he was, the alert and predatory sub-human, further from what she believed man should be like than the naked savage, because the savage was tractable, while this creature, wearing the armor of his own rigid barbaric culture, consciously defied progress. And that was what Stenham saw, too; to him the boy was a perfect symbol of human backwardness, and excited his praise precisely because he was “pure”: there was no room in his personality for anything that mankind had not already fully developed long ago. To him he was a consolation, a living proof that today’s triumph was not yet total; he personified Stenham’s infantile hope that time might still be halted and man sent back to his origins.
— Paul Bowles, The Spider's House
Progress is a collection of expectations set and met.
— Ashlecka Aumrivani
When you keep seeking to improve, you will never get bored with your craft.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
a Philosopher could not grasp the modern idea of progress ... until he was willing to abandon ancestor worship, until he analyzed away his inferiority complex toward the past, and realized that his own generation was superior to any yet known
— Carl Lotus Becker, Progress and Power
The human race is a letdown, Ernest — a bad, bad letdown. And I’m disgusted with it. It thinks it’s progressed, but it hasn’t. It thinks it’s risen above the primeval slime, but it hasn’t. It’s wallowing in it. It’s still clinging to us, clinging to our hair and to our eyes and to our souls. We’ve invented a few things that make noises, but we haven’t invented one big thing that creates quiet. Endless, peaceful quiet. Something to pull over us like a gigantic eiderdown, something to deaden the sound of our emotional yellings and screechings and suffocate our psychological confusions.
— Noël Coward, Design for Living
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessor.
— Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born
Progress was never meant to be stinted, and even failures weren’t to be destroyed.
— Elise Kova, The Alchemists of Loom
Those who are fascinated by the idea of progress do not suspect that everything moving forward is at the same time bringing the end nearer and that joyous watchwords like "forward" and "farther" are the lascivious voice of death urging us to hasten to it. (If fascination with the word "forward" has become universal, isn't it mainly because death is already speaking to us from nearby?)
— Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken that slumbering Progress.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awake that slumbering Progress.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
The people of the town have little need. They do not hanker after progress and have never changed their essential way of life. Their invaders were a long time in conquering them; and now, after four centuries of Christianity, they still pray in Tanoan to the old deities of the earth and sky and make their living from the things that are and have always been within their reach; while in the discrimination of pride they acquire from their conquerors only the luxury of example. They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming; a long outwaiting.
— N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn
The only way you’re going to be defeated is if you allow your brain to shut down your body. If you stop making progress, you’re damned.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
It is not where one is, but in what direction he is going.
— George MacDonald, Mary Marston
The mind is an innovation engine of any human progress, but also the root cause of almost all human problems.
— Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
After the storm there will always be calm - once the winds of change have subsided
— Gavin Mills
Our scars are like the rings in a tree trunk, showing its progress through life. How we heal and move forward through adversity . . . that is what makes the difference.
— Morgan Rhodes, Crimson Dagger
Consistently failing is nothing more than an indication that you are progressing. The more we fail the farther we will see. Failure is not an option
—  it is the only option. A master is a master because he has had the courage to fail and the wisdom to learn from it.
Measuring progress is often like watching grass grow. While it’s difficult to detect movement on a daily basis, it’s simple to see growth over time.
— Frank Sonnenberg, BookSmart: Hundreds of real-world lessons for success and happiness
The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied...and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings.
— Thomas Jefferson
It's your duty to build your brand daily not in a day
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
One step is better than no steps.
— Rebecca Brockway quoting 14-year-old son Carlino
There is no need for me to worry, I've already been here somany times and each time I have made it throughalive
— Michael Dodson Jr.
Innovation is a progress, and progress in simplicity.
— Pearl Zhu, Talent Master: 199+ Questions to See Talent from Different Angles
Strategy is for making progress and progress is in simplicity.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Master: Debunk the Myths of Enterprise Digital Maturity
It seems strange to me that mechanical progress always seems to leave the slower demands of elegance far behind.
— William Pène du Bois, The Twenty-One Balloons
O what we ben! And what we come to!
— Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker
There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man’s mastery over the environment. Not space travel, not the fifty colonized worlds that were now so haughtily independent, but the City.
— Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel
Much of human progress has involved reducing the time and energy, as well as the number of processes we have to engage in and think about, for each of us to obtain the necessities of life.
— Barry Schwartz, The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end and that behind all the joyous 'onward and upward' slogans lurks the lascivious voice of death urging us to make haste.
— Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
One thing you notice about progress, kid, is that it doesn't happen to everyone.
— Jeanette Winterson
Those who ignore the destructive potential of new technologies can do so only because they ignore history . Pogroms are as old as Christendom , but without railways, the telegraph and poison gas there could have been no Holocaust. (..) Scientific fundamentalism claim that science is the disinterested pursuit of the truth. But to represent science in this way is to disregard the human needs science serves. Among us science serves two needs: for hope and censorship. Today only science supports the myth of progress. If people cling to the hope of progress, it is not so much from genuine belief as from fear of what may come if they give it up.
— John Gray, Perros de paja: Reflexiones sobre los humanos y otros animales
Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
— Eugene V. Debs
One of the most significant barriers to progress is the lack of effective leadership.
— Ken  Jennings, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community
Progress is a wonderful thing of course, and I can appreciate the lactiferins that are sprinkled on the pasture to turn the grass to cheese. And yet this lack of cows, however rational it may be, gives one the feeling that the fields and meadows, deprived of their phlegmatic, bemusedly ruminating presence, are pitifully empty.
— Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
Tenacity is the mother of progress.
— Valerie M. Hudson, Sex and World Peace
To me love is like a environment that affords everyone’s growth, today I will not hold onto those who love me, when I experience true love I can be blamable for the right environment for the people to progress in their lives.
— Bharath Mamidoju
Love doesn’t mean a commitment all the time, spread love for progress.
— Bharath Mamidoju
Learning to let go of anyone that does not add to your progress is affirming your inner sense of purpose. Just Keep moving!
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
Serving Leaders work hard to get obstacles out of the way so others can make progress.
— John Stahl-Wert, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community
Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire.(...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices.
— John Gray
There was a great deal of progress being made, right under their noses, particularly in Africa, and this progress was good. Life was much harder for tyrants than it had been before.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
We all want progress, but if you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
— C.S. Lewis
The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The years of disillusion, the long debate of who-belongs-to-who, gathered at the mighty feet of the Bangladesh Liberation War like flood waters rising, gathering thick weeds and crusty dirt and pulling it all in one direction. At times, when the body count was high and the air tasted like bloody ash, the way mass graves smell, Sariyah had wondered what progress was supposed to taste like. Often it tasted like unanswered questions, stuck in the teeth. Bangladesh had given her the true answer, though: progress at its best is home-grown. It should taste like joy – pure, unhindered joy. Like the freshest sun-ripened mango on a tree, a little sunrise in her palm.
— Katherine Russell, Without Shame
There is no such thing as progress or regress. The world is not getting better and better, nor is it getting worse and worse. It is simply moving along into the future, reiterating in different configurations the patterns that have already occurred. We can’t help but play a role in this unfolding drama, but it is a mistake to think that what we do makes any difference to the grand scheme of things.
— John Marmysz, The Nihilist: A Philosophical Novel
Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
— Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
If America and the Western world continue in their state of unconscious hopelessness, lack of faith and of fortitude, it is predictable that they will not be able to resist the temptation of the big bang by nuclear weapons, which would end all problems - overpopulation, boredom, and hunger - since it would do away with all life.
— Erich Fromm
A man is not a tree'...If we remain where we start from we will neither grow nor flourish.
— June Jordan
It is important to understand where to draw a line between progress and perfection.
— Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
Goldie was a believer in the imperial project, which is to say, in the civilising power of social progress.
— Damon Galgut
If only we can agree that us mortal human beings only have relevance when there are opposing forces and ideas then we would not be so consumed with tribalism. It is our focus on what others do or say that gives them meaning and relevance. Light that points to the clear sky is consumed by darkness.. In the absence of a reflective object light has no relevance.. Friction/resistance is necessary for forward movement.
— Lennox D.Lampkin
Even the bees I'd swear were sent to protect us in the delicate business of hives and honey are stung to silence by the news that something winged has lost its flight.
— Kristen Henderson, Drum Machine
The reality however is that in order to make progress in life, we have to embrace discomfort.
— Sunday Adelaja