#backward

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#backwards #efficient #going #means #merely

I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time. ↗

— Syd Barrett

#i #just #mostly #my time #path

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#bit #fact #forwards #i #like

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#backward #forward #go #going #need

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#backwards #became #century #command #companion

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#backward #case #certainly #countries #crop

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#globalization #hard #hundred #i #like

Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy. ↗

— Kathleen Hanna

#always #backwards #being #being nice #bending

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#factory #forward #knowledge #looked #looks

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#backward #forward #look #never #people