The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.
- Todd GitlinAll that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
- Edward GibbonThe rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.
- Alan SkrainkaThere are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
- Alice Rossi