#ogre

Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me -- indeed, I might add, which generally takes no heed of me except to do me harm -- and, since I hold them low in my esteem and remain neutral towards them, I believe that society and my neighbor are in my debt. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#philosophy #selfishness #progress

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. ↗

— Guy Debord

#embraces #erases #expressions #false #his

And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#erring #mistakes #progress #responsibility #progress

We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors. ↗

— Alan Moore

#progress

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#progress

And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware. ↗

— David Sedaris

#progress

When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence. ↗

— John O'Donohue

#progress

Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. ↗

— George Orwell

#progress

Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation. ↗

— Alasdair Gray

#progress #work #progress

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

#utopia #progress