#retrograde

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#appear #available #beliefs #bring #change

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#men #progressive #retrograde #stationary #three

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state. ↗

— David Ricardo

#common #fall #retrograde #rise #society