Patrick Stewart Quotes

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.

Human life moves only in one direction - toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain stagnant or, in certain cases, return to a previous condition when things weren't as bad as they've become for you.

You either get better or you get worse. Those are the only two options.

We are going backwards in a field that’s supposed to be all about moving forward

You never stay the same. You either get better or you get worse.

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

It could become much worse.

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.

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

If my wisdom could get support from officials, I think society would move forward 20 years.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're still running around like the days of Genghis Khan. There are so many important, better things to do and we need to encourage people to reach into the brighter side of humanity and not encourage people to continue to glorify the darker side.

If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.

Societies either roll on blindly to disaster or they find the inner strength to stop themselves long enough to find ways for reform from within.

He who does not advance, retreats.

What's got badly, goes badly.

History is the study of what civilizations die from. Literature is the study of what civilizations live for.

There are no footprints backwards!

How oppressive the best institutions become in the course of a few generations …. shall a system of government or religion … endure for ever?

If you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

To get better, you have to get worse.

If you're not getting better, you're getting worse.