So much in the world has been destroyed that I have cast my lot with those who, age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

— Adrienne Rich, U.S. poet and essayist, know for bringing the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse, 1929-2012

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable.

— Unknown Source

So much in the world has been destroyed that I have cast my lot with those who, age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

— Unknown Source

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural – while it was recent.

— Unknown Source

Progress lies not in what is enhancing, but in advancing of what will be.

— Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931

So much in the world has been destroyed that I have cast my lot with those who, age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

— Adrienne Rich, U.S. poet and essayist, know for bringing the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse, 1929-2012

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural – while it was recent.

— Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

— Alfred North Whitehead, British mathematician and philosopher, 1861-1947

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.

— Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

— Thomas Huxley, English biologist who was an advocate of Charles Darwin\’s theory of evolution

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

— Oliver W. Holmes, Jr., U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

— Margaret Mead, U.S. cultural anthropologist, author, and speaker on the mass media, 1901-1978

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

— Marshall McLuhan, Canadian philosopher whose study of media history is one of the cornerstones of media theory, 1911-1980

And from the discontent of man the world’s best progress springs.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox, U.S. author and poet, 1850-1919

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

— James Bryant Conant, U.S. chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, 1893-1978

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

— Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher, 1861-1947

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

— Wendell Phillips, U.S. abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney, 1811-1884

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

— Simeon Strunsky, Russian-born Jewish American essayist and editorialist, 1879-1948

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

— George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950

Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic, and more time to drive to the office.

— Unknown source

What we call progress is the exchange of one Nuisance for another Nuisance.

— Havelock Ellis, English physician, writer, writer, and social reformer who studied human sexuality, 1859-1939

Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.

— Bill Vaughan, U.S. columnist and author, 1915-1977

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

— Stanislaw Lee, Polish poet and aphorist, 1909-1966
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