Octavio Paz Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life

  Octavio Paz

  Views, Civilization, Differences

• The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.

  Octavio Paz

  Progress, Giants, Done

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.121, Arcade Publishing

• By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death

  Octavio Paz

  Civilization, Differences, Progress

• The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us

  Octavio Paz

  Civilization, Progress, Technique

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