David Ervine Quotes

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

I don't think anybody goes onto the pitch and wants to go backwards.

It is the mark of a primitive society to view regression as progress.

Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

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

Experience forced on men’s minds the conviction that what had ever been must ever be.

He who does not advance, retreats.

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.

What I'm trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better.

Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every valuable thing that has been added to the store of man's possessions has been derided by them when it was new, and destroyed by them when they had the power. They have fought every new truth ever heard of, and they have killed every truth-seeker who got into their hands.

You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.

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

We should stay on the right track to the 21st century. Opportunity alone is not enough. I want to build an America in the 21st century in which all Americans take personal responsibility for themselves, their families, their communities and their country.

The only phrase I've ever disliked is, 'Why, we've always done it that way.' I always tell young people, 'Go ahead and do it. You can always apologize later.'

When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.

Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can.

Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.

May the best of your today's be the worst of your tomorrow's

The greatest evils of society are goods that have refused to go on, but have sat down on the highway, saying to the world, "We stop here; do you stop also.

We do things much the same way as we did 50, 60 or even 70 years ago. The answers may not be wrong, but we haven't experimented to see whether they are or not.

As we look into the future, it's as far as we can see. So let's make each tomorrow be the best that it can be.