Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.

The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.

The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.