"The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress."

-- Sydney J. Harris

#Enemy Quotes #Progress Quotes #Stagnation Quotes

“I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.”
“Being interested in a woman is quite another matter from being in love with one.”

Source : Linda Lael Miller (2011). “Taming Charlotte”, p.248, Simon and Schuster
“The world is so possessed by the power of what is and the efforts of adjustment to it, that the adolescent's rebellion, which once fought the father because his practices contradicted his own ideology, can no longer crop up. ... Psychologically, the father is ... replaced by the world of things.”

Source : "The Essential Frankfurt School Reader" by Max Horkheimer, (pp. 41-42), 1982.
“Firms don't just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there is unemployment, they ask themselves how wage cuts would affect the behavior of the employees. Would they quit or feel dissatisfied and work less hard on the firm's behalf if they feel that wage policies are unfair?”
“The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.”
“To refuse any bond of union between man and civil society, on the one hand, and God the Creator and consequently the supreme Law-giver, on the other, is plainly repugnant to the nature, not only of man, but of all created things; for, of necessity, all effects must in some proper way be connected with their cause; and it belongs to the perfection of every nature to contain itself within that sphere and grade which the order of nature has assigned to it, namely, that the lower should be subject and obedient to the higher.”
“The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right.”

Source : "Author stresses Justice Brennan's continued relevance" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2010.
“One of the first things they teach you in Driver's Ed is where to put your hands on the steering wheel. They tell you put 'em at ten o'clock and two o' clock. Never mind that . I put mine at 9:45 and 2:17. Gives me an extra half hour to get where I'm goin'.”

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