"Steam is no stronger now than it..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.”
“The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.”
“Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.”
More on Progress
“Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law.A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.”
“If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!”
“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions”
More on Efficiency
“Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more.”
“Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen.”
“What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?”