#progress

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life. ↗

— George Monbiot

#ecology #environment #progress #life

Children...need most of the same things adults need--consideration, respect for their work, the knowledge that they and the things they do are taken seriously. ↗

— Caroline Pratt

#education #progressive-education #education

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#men

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#comfort #materialism #progress #science #science

The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off. ↗

— Anderson Cooper

#progress #travel #action

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#benefit #constructive #constructive criticism #criticism #desire

All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#labor movement #lectures #make #movement #nicely

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#human #human mind #makes #mind #progress

Life is short and progress is slow. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

#life is short #progress #short #slow

Delay is the enemy of progress. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#enemy #progress