By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards
Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century ? I am afraid that it is.
A typewriter forces you to keep going, to march forward.
History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
Paint yourself into a corner so that you don't have any other option but to continue forward.
