"Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best."

-- Thomas Huxley

#Mean Quotes #Survival Quotes #Progress Quotes

“Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?”
“These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.”
“When I read passages like this, I want to look for the nearest wall to bang my head against.”

Source : S. T. Joshi (2003). “The Weird Tale”, p.15, Wildside Press LLC
“Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State.”
“I don't spend a lot of time working if I can help it.”

Source : "A room of my own: Billy Childish" by Alex Clark, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2012.
“Everybody has to think for himself. A right way for a big man may not be a right way for a small man. A right way for someone who is slow may not be a right way for someone who is quick. Each person must understand his weaknesses and his strengths.”
“And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?”
“There are a lot of guys out there with skills who have not contributed to the evolution of the instrument. It's about more than that...it's an emotive language, an aesthetic. Skill is an aspect, but it's what you do with that skill, or say with that skill, that matters.”

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