#pro

You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#bill-watterson #calvin-and-hobbes #hugs #progress

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

If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and would achieve nothing. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#achievement

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