Top 17 Quotes About Retrogression
#1. If animal history has been a history of evolution, then the history of mankind is one of retrogression. Hooray for monsters! Monsters are the great embodiments of the weak.
Kobo Abe
#2. When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument.
Emanuel Ax
#3. In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.
Jean Paul
#4. Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#5. Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.
Napoleon Hill
#6. The position of an art in the scale of human knowledge is, perhaps, the most eloquent symptom of the gulf between man's progress in the physical sciences and his stagnation (or, today, his retrogression) in the humanities.
Ayn Rand
#7. No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim.
Orison Swett Marden
#8. In Geo-Politics, a nation has no permanent allies or permanent enemies, only permanent interests.
George Friedman
#9. The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#11. While waiting for promised blessings, one should not mark time, for to fail to move forward is to some degree a retrogression. Be anxiously engaged in good causes, including your own development.
Howard W. Hunter
#12. One more thing: Philippe, you are not a coward-so what I want to hear from you is the ecstatic truth about the twin towers.
Werner Herzog
#13. It is a retrogression when human beings begin to insist on uniform, on one-mindedness, on conditioning their offspring so that all their reactions are automatic.
Louis MacNeice
#14. A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.
Emily Giffin
#15. Progress has been much more general than retrogression
Charles Darwin
#16. In Nigeria they convict by law, not by the truth
Fela Kuti
#17. Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
