“If everything on earth were rational, nothing would ever happen.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, goodreads.com
“Nothing has changed. They body still trembles as it trembled before Rome was founded and after, in the twentieth century before and after Christ.”— Wisława Szymborska, mrhoyesibwebsite.com
“Progress? There's no such thing as progress. There's only change. You dig a hole in the ground, you build up a city, and you fight a war, and you call it progress?”— Charles Manson, amazon.com
“No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, ebooks.adelaide.edu.au
“Think of it this way: the more info that we get, the more options we get, the more knowledge we get, and the much higher chance of evolving to a level that perhaps would be unreachable any other way.”— Bobby Chiu, youtube.com
“It is okay to be at a place of struggle. Struggle is just another word for growth. Even the most evolved beings find themselves in a place of struggle now and then. In fact, struggle is a sure sign to them that they are expanding; it is their indication of real and important progress. The only one w…”— Neale Donald Walsch, goodreads.com
“It has to be a mixed of dissatisfaction with the way that it is, and what could be better, and we have to work for that; and also recognizing that we've done a great deal of remarkable things, as a species and as individuals.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“Maybe it's beautiful that we move on from our successes and immediately fret over the next giant, magnificent problem that we have to overcome.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“Maybe that's good! that we're not designed to say, 'Well, I guess we've done pretty well. Might as well stop progressing.'”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“We basically need every person on Earth to know about these goals because they are achievable and we can do this, but only if people hold their governments accountable, only if we care!”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“I want to be angry that children are dying, that gender inequality exists pretty much everywhere on Earth, that six million people will die this year because they don't have access to clean water! The world is messed up. But we have a plan.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“We are cognitively biased to be both disinterested in and kind of skeptical of good news. Especially when that good news is so large scale that we can't really get emotionally involved in it.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“You are much less likely to be poor or hungry or illiterate than you were in 1990. if you're a girl, you're more likely to go to school, and if you're a mother, you're less likely to die during childbirth, or to have to bury one of your kids.”— John Green, youtube.com
“Disasters happen all at once! Successes happen slowly and gradually and they are interrupted by disasters, but they continue despite them!”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“Bad news usually happens all at once, whereas good news usually happens slowly.”— John Green, youtube.com
“Part of the reason we don't hear about the continuing decline in absolute poverty or childhood mortality or death by violence is that they aren't events, they're processes that occur over decades or centuries.”— John Green, youtube.com
“A hundred years ago, we couldn't vote. We have come such a long way. I mean, here I am, a woman, wearing pants on national television, drunk as a skunk, gay as the day is long.”— Ellen Degeneres, youtube.com