Havelock Ellis Quotes

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

The standards of the past are not the standards of the future.

The reformer does not want to move left; he wants to move forward.

In a progressive country change is constant;… change … is inevitable

Innovation means change.

We are not starting a revolution. We are starting an evolution of change.

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

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

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

Reform is not a period of retreat.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

The march of progress must continue.

Times do keep changing - thank God.

New roads; new ruts.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

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

Progress includes Order, but Order does not include Progress.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

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

Change is often the agent of progress in ways we can't always readily see in the early days.