"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things"
- Russell Baker
About this Quote
This quote by Russell Baker speaks with the concept that development is not constantly an advantage. He suggests that when dreadful things are performed in the name of development, they are not actually advance at all, but merely horrible things. This suggests that progress needs to not be used as a reason to do something incorrect or unethical. Baker is suggesting that development ought to be used to make favorable changes and improvements, not to validate unfavorable actions. He is likewise suggesting that progress needs to be measured by the positive results it produces, not by the unfavorable actions taken to achieve it. This quote functions as a reminder that development must be utilized to make the world a better location, not to make it worse.
This quote is written / told by Russell Baker between August 14, 1925 and January 21, 2019. He was a famous Journalist from USA.
The author also have 28 other quotes.
"In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am"
"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress"
"Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress"
