Progress Quotes

Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.

If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.

My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.

But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.

I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.

Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development.

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

Today, the future of Venezuela won and, as we said, we repeat to everyone: there is a path, there is a path for progress, for the future, to make Venezuela a greater country.

One can not impede scientific progress.

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.

I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

The men and women on the front lines of the war on terror continue to risk their lives to save ours - and for that we owe them a debt that we can never truly repay. Thanks to their efforts we have made tremendous progress. Yet, the job is not done.

With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

Progress really is possible.

I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.

Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties.