“it will never be outmoded as long as the systole and diastole of human life survives, and men fluctuate between progress and reaction, growth and decline, hope and illusion.”

— Robert Gordis

"Koheleth - the Man and his World", p. 3

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American rabbi and theologian 1908–1992

John Carroll (1944) Australian professor and author

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 168

“In the west, we believe we are the most progressive and socially just, but a lot of that is just a hopeful illusion.”

Barry Lopez (1945) American writer

On the West’s environmental thinking in “'We're living in emergency times': nature writer Barry Lopez's dire warning” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/07/barry-lopez-horizons-environment-climate-change in The Guardian (2019 May 7)

“In the recognition of the growth in human consciousness and in a realization of the distinction obviously existing between primitive men and our modern intelligent humanity lie the grounds for an unshaken optimism as to human destiny.”

Alice A. Bailey (1880–1949) esoteric, theosophist, writer

Introduction
Problems Of Humanity (1944)

“Distinctions must be kept in mind between quantity and quality of growth, between its costs and return, and between the short and the long term. Goals for more growth should specify more growth of what and for what.”

Simon Kuznets (1901–1985) economist

Simon Kuznets in: Herbert David Croly eds. (1962) The New Republic Vol. 147. p. 29: About rethinking the system of national accounting

“As long as young people feel they have got no hope but to blow themselves up you are never going to make progress.”

Cherie Blair (1954) British barrister and wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair

Charles Reiss, Hugh Muir, "Cherie suicide bombing gaffe", Evening Standard, 18 June 2002, p. 1
Speech at the launch of Medical Aid for Palestinians charity, 18 June 2002, referring to Palestinian suicide bombers; she later apologised for any offence caused.