P Quotes
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“Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.”
Source: Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of
“Progress,' wrote C.S. Lewis, '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.' This is a phenomenally good way of looking at it, I think. Forward momentum, on an individual or social level, is not automatically good simply because it is forward momentum. Sometimes we push our lives in the wrong direction. If we feel it is making ourselves unhappy, progress might mean doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road. But we must never feel - personally or s a culture, that only one version of the future is inevitable.
The future is ours to shape.”
Source: Notes on a Nervous Planet
“Progress! Progress through everybody dying and their kids eventually not caring who their parents hated!”
“Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.”
“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense
“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense
“Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul,--this makes life worth living.”
Source: Self-culture, lectures
“Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.”
“Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow”
Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct
“Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.”
Source: Progress of a race: or, The remarkable advancement of the American Negro from the bondage of slavery, ignorance and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust
“Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.”
Source: The Importance and Means of a National Literature
“Progress, the religion of those who have none.”
“Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true.”
“Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.”
“Progress, this great heresy of decay.”
“Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.”
“progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.”
“Progress-progress is the dirtiest word in the language-who ever told us- And made us believe it-that to take a step forward was necessarily, was always A good idea?”
“Progress. Just make progress. It's okay to have setbacks and the need for do-overs. It's okay to draw a line in the sand and start over again - and again. Just make sure you're moving the line forward. Move forward. Take baby steps... Then change will come. And it will be good.”
“Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop.”
“Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.”
“Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.”
Source: Pavements at Anderby: tales of
“Progressing food intolerance that would trigger fatigue and sleepiness was a big feature of my Long COVID symptoms.”
Source: Long COVID Supplements
“Progressing mental and physical illnesses were a feature of my Shift Work Disorder.”
Source: Night Shift Recovery
“Progressing to where you can play a big role in football is nothing you can achieve in just two years. It will at least take five, six, well more likely seven years. A once-in-a-life-time success does not help you, constant quality is what you have to go for.”
“Progression and achievement belong to those who have learned to use the opportunity of now. Our strides of today will determine our locations tomorrow.”
“Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression.”
“Progression is important. I'm always going to play music in the general vein of rock'n'roll, but when I started I was very much associated with the West Coast lo-fi thing and I didn't want to get anchored in with anything that was just in vogue for the time being.”
“Progression, in my opinion, is often identifying shortcomings - whether it's views or the things you're doing in your life, your relationships - and trying to find the places where you improve on those.”
“Progression: you can start from where you are.”
“Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.”
“Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live.”
Source: Women, Culture & Politics
“Progressive companies regard climate change as an opportunity rather than a threat”
“Progressive Consequentialsm requires us to make the world better but we are under no obligation to bring about the best possible world.”
“Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role.”
“Progressive disclosure defers advanced or rarely used features to a secondary screen, making applications easier to learn and less error-prone.”
“Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy.”
“Progressive feminists have shown nothing but the most reflexive, regressive contempt for women on the other side of the ideological aisle. It doesn’t matter if you’re a conservative stay at home mom, work at home mom, or work outside the home mom. If you’re Right, the Left is gonna hate.”
“Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.”
“Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have with poor people not for the poor people's sake but for our own; i.e., we should share what we have in order to become less narrow and frightened and lonely and self-centered people.”
Source: Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
“Progressive policies are harming the Black community.”
“Progressive policies lead to a regressive society.”
“Progressive policies make your life better. Republican policies make billionaires richer and your life worse.
Every lie Trump and Fox News tell you is designed to hide this simple fact from you.”
Source: American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America
“Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.”
“Progressive revelation does not just join parts but joins prophets together to proclaim the same message in an ever-widening and deepening way.”
Source: Searching Below the Surface: A Deeper Look at Covenant and Contract
“Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.”
“Progressive rock was happening.”
“Progressive struggles—whether they are focused on racism, repression, poverty, or other issues—are doomed to fail if they do not also attempt to develop a consciousness of the insidious promotion of capitalist individualism.”
Source: Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
“Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away”
Source: Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow