“The cause which is blocking all progress today is the subtle scepticism which whispers in a million ears that things are not good enough to be worth improving. If the world is good we are revolutionaries, if the world is evil we must be conservatives. These essays, futile as they are considered as serious literature, are yet ethically sincere, since they seek to remind men that things must be loved first and improved afterwards.” IfsMenWorldFirstsEnoughTodayEvilLiteratureCausesMillionsProgressSeriousEarsBlockRevolutionarySubtleGood EnoughSincereImprovingEssaysNot Good EnoughScepticism Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“By complex ways, by looking deep into the dark well of the human soul, full of filth, somewhere at the very bottom of it Chekhov at last found his faith. And this faith turned out to be faith in man, in the power of human progress. And man became his god.” MenWayInspirationalHumansWellsArtSoulLastsFoundLiteratureDarkProgressComplexesBottomHuman SoulFilthHuman ProgressChekhov Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities. It stores up the accumulated experience of the race, connecting Past and Present into a conscious unity; and with this store it feeds successive generations, to be fed in turn by them.” PastTurnsLiteratureSocialCausesNaturalRaceProgressGenerationsEffectsExerciseIntellectualConsciousCapacityUnityStoresFedsSensibilityConnectingPast And PresentSocial Progress Author:George Henry Lewes
“The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.” MomentsPoetryLiteratureProgressPoliceManage Author:Ted Hughes
“Productivity-the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy-is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.” LiteratureHoursEconomyProgressModernAmountProductivityFinanceMinistersWakingEnginesCapitalistAcademicQuestsOutputTime Is MoneyCapitalist Economy Author:Tim Jackson
“Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently: as essential to being human and to human progress, individual and collective.” ArtPastLiteratureIndividualSinProgressBeing HumanShortcomings Author:Brian Boyd
“In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.” ReasonLiteratureGrowthDifferencesProgressDestructionCelebration Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde
“He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.” ThinkingLiteratureProgressSecurityLessonsAuthorityHighest Book:Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels Source: Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels
“While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.” PeopleImportantRememberFatherLiteratureProgressPromiseDisappointmentKeepers Author:Bryant H. McGill
“A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.” LittlesPersonsLiteratureMistakeProgress Author:Bryant H. McGill
“Progress, this great heresy of decay.” LiteratureProgressOrthodoxDecayHeresy Author:Charles Baudelaire