Eugene V. Debs Quotes

There is no such thing as standing still.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

Reform can only move forward. It cannot stagnate. Even more so, it can’t move backward.

I know that without change there would be no progress, but I am not going to mistake mere change for progress.

Mellowing has never done much for me. You need to keep moving.

We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.

Progress grows out of motion.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

Life does not stand still. Where there is no progress, there is disintegration.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.

Anything is better than stagnation.

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

You are either going forward or you are not.

Unless you go forward then you are going back.

There is no standing still because time is moving forward.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

Movement isn't progress.

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress