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| Allmänheten befäster det bestående. Utvecklingen är möjlig endast tack vare minoriteten. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Allt för mycket stabilitet förhindrar framsteg. | Harold Wilkinson |
| De som talar mest om framsteg, mäter den i kvantitet och inte i kvalitet. | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| Den medicinska forskningen har gjort så enorma framsteg att det praktiskt talat inte finns några friska människor längre. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Den moderna formeln för människans utveckling lyder: Framsteg är lika med bråk plus miljöföroreningar plus cancer multiplicerat med inflation. | Ugo Longoni |
| Det vi kallar framsteg är utbytet av en nackdel mot en annan. | Henry Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) |
| Det är den som går vilse som hittar de nya vägarna. | Nils Kjær |
| Det är lång tid innan framåtskridandet går för långt. | Poul Henningsen (1894-1967) |
| Framsteg som varar för evigt låter sig bara köpas till priset av evig otillfredställelse | Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) |
| Framsteg är bara möjligt genom att göra fel och försöka igen. | Helmut Heissenbüttel |
| Framsteg är bara möjligt om man intelligent överskrider reglerna. | Boleslaw Barlog |
| Framsteg är de missnöjdas verk. | Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) |
| Framsteg är en existentiell illusion. | Aasmund Brynildsen (1917-1974) |
| Framsteg är människans förmåga att komplicera det enkla. | Thor-Heyerdahl (1914-2002) |
| Framsteg, vad är det? Att vi kan köra fortare på vägarna? Nej, framsteg det är kroppens nödvändiga vila och själens nödvändiga ro. Framsteg är människans trivsel. | Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) |
| Framtiden kommer av sig själv, framsteget inte. | Poul Henningsen (1894-1967) |
| Framåtskridandet låter sig inte hejdas. Förr behövdes det fem malkulor till en baddräkt. Nu räcker det med en malkula till fem baddräkter. | Micheline Presle (1922-) |
| He composed his images based on emotional and poetic associations, rather than on rules of pictorial logic. | Marc Chagall (1887-1985) |
| Hos oss kallar man det framsteg bara man inte inte ramlar när man går baklänges. | Rudolf Rolfs |
| I åratal har Sovjetunionen stått på avgrundens rand. Nu, kära medborgare, är det dags att ta ett stort steg framåt. | Boris Jeltsin (1931-) |
| Rådlöshet och otillfredställelse är de första förutsättningarna för framsteg. | Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) |
| Så länge människan glömmer långsammare än hon lär sig gör hon framsteg. Hon slutar att göra framsteg och rör sig baklänges så snart hon glömmer fortare och mer än hon kan lära sig. | Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi |
| varför översätta Shaw från norskan?! och varför översätta en aforism flera gånger, och varje gång olika?!! | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Varje framsteg är beroende av att både skrivna och oskrivna lagar bryts. | Jens Bjorneboe (1920-1976) |
| Verkliga framsteg är de som möjliggör eller framtvingar att man kommer vidare. | Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) |
| Är det framsteg om en kannibal använder kniv och gaffel? | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| Uden kamp kan der ikke være fremskridt. | Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) |
| Den evige forhindring for menneskeligt fremskridt er vanen. | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| Lad os sige, at menneskeheden er som en flok, der er stuvet sammen i en bil, som kører ned ad bakke i en frygtelig fart, uden lys og med en fireårs dreng bag rattet. På skiltene langs vejen står: Fremskridt. | Lord Dunsanny |
| Lad os sige, at menneskeheden er som en flok, der er stuvet sammen i en bil, som kører ned ad bakke i en frygtelig fart, uden lys og med en fireårs dreng bag rattet. På skiltene langs vejen står: Fremskridt. | Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) |
| Ærlige forskelle er ofte et sundt tegn på fremskridt. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Fremskridt har sikker været i orden engang, men det er gået for langt. | Ogden Nash (1902-1971) |
| Fremtiden kommer af sig selv, fremskridtet ikke. | Poul Henningsen (1894-1967) |
| Den store fjende af progressive ideer er ikke det etablerede, men den grænseløse træghed hos dem, der tager dem op | Saul Bellow (1915-2005) |
| Kan man kalde det fremskridt, hvis en kannibal spiser med kniv og gaffel? | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. | Bernard Berenson (1865-1959) |
| The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress. | Ernest Renan (1823-1892) |
| Progress is not created by contented people | Frank Tyger |
| Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base. | Frederick Wilcox |
| The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force | George Bancroft (1800-1891) |
| All progress occurs because people dare to be different. | Harry Millner |
| Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened | Madame de Staël (1766-1817) |
| Whereas knights of old wore armor of plate, the modern knights of the air wear the invisible but magic armor of confidence in technology | Mike Spick |
| After several thousand years, we have advanced to the point where we bolt our doors and windows and turn on our burglar alarms - while the jungle natives sleep in open-door huts | Morris Mandel |
| Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions | Norbert Wiener (1894-) |
| Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. | Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) |
| It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world's progress has come out of such loneliness. | Bruce Barton (1886-1967) |
| We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little. | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| If there is no struggle, there is no progress. | Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) |
| Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| What we call "Progress"is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance | Henry Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) |
| The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. | Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) |
| I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy. | Mme Marie Curie (1867-1934) |
| Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter. | Nadine Gordimer (1923-) |
| Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. | Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) |
| True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice. | St. Francis of Assisi |
| Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base. | Frederick Wilcox |
| Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. | Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947) |
| Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. | Thor-Heyerdahl (1914-2002) |
| The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Man's "progress" is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) |
| All progress occurs because people dare to be different. | Harry Millner |
| He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress | Anwar Sadat (1918-1981) |
| All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. | Shirley Hufsteddler |
| Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. | Robert Francis Kennedy (1925-1968) |
| True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice. | St. Francis of Assisi |
| The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little. | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. | Sir Harold Wilson (1916-1995) |
| It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things. | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) |
| The greater part of progress is the desire for progress | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not any hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient Stimulus to be creative. | Alfred Adler (1870-1937) |
| The art of progress is to preserve order amid change. | Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) |
| In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am. | Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) |
| In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed. | Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) |
| If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. | Epictetus (55-135) |
| Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. | Frank Zappa (1940-1993) |
| Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base. | Frederick Wilcox |
| All progress means war with society. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Progress was all right. Only it went on too long. | James Thurber (1894-1961) |
| Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools | Karl Kraus (1874-1936) |
| Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex | Karl Marx mamma (1818-1883) |
| Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface. | Marianne Williamson (1952-) |
| After several thousand years, we have advanced to the point where we bolt our doors and windows and turn on our burglar alarms - while the jungle natives sleep in open-door huts | Morris Mandel |
| It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward. | Old Chinese Proverb |
| Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things | Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) |
| Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. | Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) |
| Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, "Disobedience was man's Original Virtue." | Robert Anton Wilson (1932-) |
| Progress is The law of life, man is not man as yet | Robert Browning (1812-1889) |
| All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress. | Sierra Club Slogan |
| What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
| Progress is the stride of God. | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. | Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) |
| Den moderne formel for menneskehetens utvikling lyder: Fremskritt er støy pluss miljøforurensning pluss kreft multiplisert med inflasjon. | Ugo Longoni |
| Det er fra meg fremskrittene må komme, ellers kommer de aldri. | Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) |
| Det fins bare ett fremskritt: skjerping av samvittigheten. | Thomas Niederreuther |
| Framskritt begynner med troen på at det som er nødvendig, også er mulig | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Fremskritt er virkeliggjørelse av utopier. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Fremskrittet manifesterer seg ved at før hadde barn snørrete neser, og nå har snørrungene barn. | Willi Hempel |
| Går en på trynet, går det i allefall fremover! | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Hver generasjon tror at verden går fremover fordi den alltid er i bevegelse. Men en pendel beveger seg også. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| I motbakker går det i alle fall oppover. | Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) |
| Ved fremskritt menes mer tempoet enn retningen. | Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) |
| Vi går fremover med to ganger lydens hastighet og en halv gang fornuftens hastighet. | Thomas Griffith (1945-) |