
“The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.”
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
Spin (June 1992)
“The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.”
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“I didn't expect change to come so slow, so agonizingly slow.”
PENN Address (2004)
Context: I didn't expect change to come so slow, so agonizingly slow. I didn't realize that the biggest obstacle to political and social progress wasn't the Free Masons, or the Establishment, or the boot heel of whatever you consider 'the Man' to be, it was something much more subtle. As the Provost just referred to, a combination of our own indifference and the Kafkaesque labyrinth of 'no's you encounter as people vanish down the corridors of bureaucracy.
As quoted in The Enjoyment of Music : An Introduction to Perceptive Listening (1955) by Joseph Machlis; also The Vintage Guide to Classical Music (1992) by Jan Swafford
Source: Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works, 1905, p. 60
“Slow justice is not justice.”
Interview with Caribbean Business (May 17, 2007)
“Oh Walter en't been the same man, you know…slow, very slow since he came back.”
Nineteen Twenty-One (2001)
“Growth is slow but collapse is rapid.”
[Ugo Bardi, 2017, The Seneca Effect: Why growth is slow but collapse is rapid, 7, Springer, 1612-3018, 10.1007/978-3-319-57207-9]
Other works
“The march of the human mind is slow.”
Works of Edmund Burke Volume ii, p. 149
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
Álfgrímur's grandmother
Brekkukotsannáll (The Fish Can Sing) (1957)