Ambiguous Quote by Johan Huizinga

“There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress, it doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. It’s progress…

— Graham Swift

“it is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth. Along”

— James Hutton

It turns out that the greatly underestimated downside of technological progress is a fractured world.

— Isabelle Kocher

“The world was a fragile place, full of cracks that didn’t always show. One misstep, and they might fissure, break. One wrong move, and…

— V.E. Schwab

“As enunciated today, "progress" is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Yes, it was possible that the little world, on its voyage among all the stars, might become like that; a boat on which one…

— Willa Cather

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

— Walter Benjamin

“This minuscule 2 per cent of the earth’s surface constituted the stage on which history unfolded.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“A bridge can still be built, while the bitter waters are flowing beneath.”

— Anthony Liccione

“Resolving the issues of one passage does not insulate us forever. There will be other tricky channels ahead, and we learn by moving through…

— Gail Sheehy

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

— Russell Baker

“There are always words. An endless line, and progression of tiny moments leading to the earth shattering end.”

— Dawn Cano