Stagnation Quotes - Page 4

• Much if not all we know about the complex mechanism responsible for the development (and stagnation) of productive forces, and for the rise and decay of social organizations, is the result of the analytical work undertaken by Marx and by those whom he inspired.

  Paul A. Baran

  Organization, Decay, Development

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.5, NYU Press

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• There are many good reasons for young people to go off to college, open their minds, develop their skills and enjoy themselves. But probably the major attraction is the fact that income disparities have increased sharply between those who go to college versus those who do not. This pattern corresponds with the stagnation of average wages since the early 1970s. The reality under neoliberalism has been that, if you want to have a decent shot at a good-paying job with a chance for promotions and raises over time, the most important first step is to get a college education.

  Robert Pollin

  Reality, College, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Anything is better than stagnation.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4255, Delphi Classics

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• The key isn't winning -- or losing, it's making the attempt. I may never be what I ought to be, want to be -- but how will I know unless I try? Sure, it's scary, but what's the alternative? Stagnation - A safer, more terrible form of death. Not of the body, but of the spirit. An animal knows what it is, and accepts it. A man may know what he is -- but he questions. He dreams. He strives. Changes. Grows.

  Chris Claremont

  Dream, Animal, Winning

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• Peace without energy may be only stagnation; and energy without peace may be but a form of panic.

  W. Graham Scroggie

  Energy, May, Panic

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• [...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel at their exceeding smoothness, were chiseled into their varies and graceful forms by the ceaseless action of countless waves. Nature is herself a great worker and never tolerates, without certain rebuke, any contradiction to her wise example. Inaction is followed by stagnation. Stagnation is followed by pestilence and pestilence is followed by death.

  Frederick Douglass

  Wise, Hands, Example

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• A southern moon is a sodden moon, and sultry. When it swamps the fields and the rustling sandy roads and the sticky honeysuckle hedges in its sweet stagnation, your fight to hold on to reality is like a protestation against a first waft of ether.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Sweet, Fighting, Moon

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation.

  Leonardo Boff

  God, Attitude, Spirituality

  Leonardo Boff (1995). “Ecologia, Mondialità, Mistica”

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• To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor.

  Paul A. Baran

  Intellectual, Growth, Culture

  "The Political Economy Of Growth" by Paul A. Baran, Ch. 8, (p. 300), 1957.

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• Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Employment, Indolence

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• It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation.

  Samuel Bowers

  Media, Civil Rights, Pagan

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• When I see our country's stagnation and economic woes, I cannot help but think that we need a creative revolution that is embraced by business and endorsed by government and educators alike.

  Larry R. Thompson

  Country, Future, Thinking

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• A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.

  Fanny Burney

  Alarms, Littles, Now And Then

  Camilla bk. 3, ch. 11 (1796)

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• When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation.

  Stephen Covey

  Freedom, Believe, Yield

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• Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is the erosion of ambition. The political goal presupposes the two others. The human characteristic required by statism is docility, which is the product of hopelessness and intellectual stagnation. Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.

  Ayn Rand

  Ambition, Men, Thinking

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.229, Penguin

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• Our souls do not like stagnation. Our souls aspire toward growth, that is, toward remembering all that we have forgotten due to our trip to this place, the earth.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Soul, Growth, Earth

  Malidoma Patrice Some (1997). “Ritual: Power, Healing and Community”, p.22, Penguin

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• If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp.

  Richard Bach

  Perfection, Heaven, Swamps

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.84, Delta

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• American gentlemen are a cross between English and French men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest than Frenchmen, and less manly, shy, and rough, than Englishmen. Their brains are finer and flimsier, their bodies less robust and vigorous than ours. We are the finer animals, and they the subtler spirits. Their intellectual tendency is to excitement and insanity, and ours to stagnation and stupidity.

  Fanny Kemble

  Animal, Men, Stupidity

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters”

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• Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Technique, Causes, Oneself

  Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is stagnation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Humility, Buddhism

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• We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political conflicts to which it gives rise, makes it possible to think in terms of developing a sizeable and serious revolutionary socialist party in a way that was not possible 20 or even 10 years ago.

  Anthony Crosland

  Party, Believe, Mean

  The Times, September 8, 1977.

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• The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the stagnation of Medieval Europe to the decline and chaos in recent times on the mainland of Asia and to the catastrophes of two world wars in the twentieth century, the methods of killing people became increasingly sophisticated. Scientific and technological progress certainly does not imply that humankind as a result becomes more civilized.

  Gao Xingjian

  War, Moving, Europe

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• A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's real self secret, the possibility of something lasting forever: love, hate, grief.

  Kelly Link

  Sex, Hate, Real

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• Any strategy that involves crossing a valley accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.

  Neal Stephenson

  Distance, Loss, Valleys

  FaceBook post by Neal Stephenson from Oct 02, 2011

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• Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  States, Felicity, Repose

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.134

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