Unstoppable Progress Quotes

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority. And as soon as this opinion is established, immediately by imperceptible degrees, but beyond power of frustration, the conduct of mankind begins to alter.

At the point that an idea approaches perfection, fashion and expectations surge ahead, leaving the innovator with considerable room to find further improvements.

Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid . . . Space flights can't be stopped. This isn't the work of one man or even a group of men. It is a historical process which mankind is carrying out in accordance with the natural laws of human development.

There is not one obstacle standing in the way of your success anymore.

Merely to call for absolute victory will produce nothing. In order to make the divine land … imperishable, we must bear the unbearable.

One can not impede scientific progress.

There is no force in the world that can block the powerful march of our army and people, who are holding high the banner of the suns of great Comrade Kim Il Sung and great Comrade Kim Jong Il and continuing to advance under the leadership of the party and with strong faith in sure victory.

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force.

You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

If I get on a roll then I will steamroll people.

Innovations, instantly followed by a demented lust for them, now arrive with dizzying speed, not just daily, but in one-hour delivery slots.

We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.

Progress grows out of motion.

No one will be able to deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.

You can't stop technology or science, and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something's got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will.

I think it's easy to hold on to this romantic hope that communities such as Niaqornat won't change, because we're in this world where progress is unstoppable, and they're a link to some idealised past.

The ways in which mankind tends to invent technology is because we have this drive to create and to innovate, and we don't necessarily pump the brakes when we're doing it.

Our inexorable destiny is to be a great nation.

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

A positive mental attitude is an irresistible force that knows no such thing as an immovable body.

There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.

No ground gained was ever relinquished.