Resistance To Progress Quotes

“Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

“Single facts almost never slay worldviews, at least not right away.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History

“Akataka, it is a common phenomenon among mankind to attempt to flip precedence: to try to bring that which has gone forward back. But it always, always fails.”
― Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities