Backwards Quote by David Ervine

When we look as a society, we've really lost the connection between our actions and the future.

— Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Societies go backwards sometimes.

— John Barnes

Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.

— Charles Yu

“And yet—this fascination with the future has generated its own antithesis, particularly in the so-called affluent or developed societies. There is a growing disenchantment…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken, new delineations drawn over…

— Susan Griffin

The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of…

— Marshall McLuhan

Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

“we need a mass of ancestors at our backs as ballast. Sometimes, we feel it's impossible to push into the future without such a…

— Lauren Groff

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are…

— Norman Mailer

A lot of people go through life like they are rowing a boat. They look at where they have been (the PAST) rather than…

— Anonymous

We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're…

— Bill Owens

The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton