Quotes About Development

Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of the ages.

The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are done, we recognize one thing: that the human race has been badly manhandled, but that it has moved forward.

Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How many men resemble the nettle! He added with a pause: Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.

My friends, remember this: There are no bad herbs, and no bad men; there are only bad cultivators.

There are no bad plants or bad men. There is only bad husbandry.

There are for each of us several parallelisms between our intelligence, our habits, and our character, which develop without a break, and break only in the great disturbances of life.

It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

He who despairs is wrong. Progress infallibly awakens, and, in short, we might say that it advances even in sleep, for it has grown.

The cities make ferocious men because they may corrupt man. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they development fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.

The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognized: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.

At the same time, his ideas underwent an extraordinary change. The phases of this change were numerous and successive.

Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's soul.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this fact is recognized,—that the human race has been treated harshly, but that it has progressed.

You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of heaven. It was necessary to begin there.

The whole of progress tends in the direction of solution. Some day we shall be amazed. As the human race mounts upward, the deep layers emerge naturally from the zone of distress. The obliteration of misery will be accomplished by a simple elevation of level.

Time is the architect, the nation is the builder.

If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow. To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is already fulfilling it to-day. It

As we have just observed, nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness.

The cities make ferocious men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they develop the fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but that it has moved forward.

Ystäväni, painakaa mieleenne, ettei ole olemassa enempää huonoja kasveja kuin huonoja ihmisiäkään. On vain huonoja viljelijöitä. (Jean Valjean)