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8 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Topic·Downsides of progress✕clear

Autobiography and memoir

All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.

The Education of Henry Adams · 1907

★ 5.4

Autobiography and memoir

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden · 1854

★ 4.8

As civilisation advances, poetry almost necessarily declines... In proportion as men know more and think more, they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

1825

★ 3.5

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

A Tramp Abroad · 1880

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

We have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not hitherto stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out, of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through.

First Inaugural Address of Woodrow Wilson · 1913

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to succeed and be great. Our thought has been "Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself," while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.

First Inaugural Address of Woodrow Wilson · 1913

★ 1.9

Film · Science fiction (film) · Action (film) · Science fiction · Action

Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should.

Jurassic Park · 1993

★ 1.9

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

It's ironic... That we've come all this way, we made all this progress, but you know, we lost the little things, the niceties.

Seinfeld · 1992

★ 1.3