Progress Reversal Quotes

A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.

Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity to support us and the rest of its living systems.

Climate change is real and needs honest debate about measures to restrain and remediate it. But that would be serious. So instead we are told the planet is going to burn up and our only option is to reverse millennia of human progress. And our leaders spent the last few years trying to win the approval of an angry Swedish teenager.

Forget [Le Corbusier ]. Forget Modernism. Forget yesterdays' tomorrow.

We're supposed to be becoming more evolved as a society, and we're actually becoming less evolved.

I'm very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we've made.

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.