progressive evolution Quotes

Innovation accelerates and compounds.

Change is almost always negative. Things degenerate.

Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.

The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life.

It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes.

I am always for change. But I believe in slow and inevitable change and not a forced one, all of a sudden.

I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stuff in the joints. They forget what they cared about. The forces against it are nostalgia and the enormous appeal of having things the way they always have been, appeals to a supposedly happy past. But we've got to move on.

Rebellions tend to be negative, to denounce and expose the enemy without providing a positive vision of a new future...A revolution is not just for the purpose of correcting past injustices, a revolution involves a projection of man/woman into the future...It begins with projecting the notion of a more human human being, i.e. a human being who is more advanced in the specific qualities which only human beings have - creativity, consciousness and self-consciousness, a sense of political and social responsibility.

In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better.

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.