progress quotes

• Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. (George Bernard Shaw) [civilization & progress/change/change/change]
• I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. (Bertrand Russell) [religion/civilization & progress]
• Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. (Benjamin Franklin) [growth/civilization & progress/words]
• Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. (John F. Kennedy) [civilization & progress/civilization & progress/education/human]
• The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little. (Franklin Roosevelt) [civilization & progress/provide]
• Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. (Henry Ford) [civilization & progress]
• Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize. (Hannah Arendt) [civilization & progress/advantage]
• All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. (Samuel Butler) [civilization & progress/desire/organism]
• A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads. (Thomas Carlyle) [civilization & progress]
• The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [civilization & progress/growth]
• The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices. (Richard Cobden) [civilization & progress/more//education]
• Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal. (Albert Einstein) [civilization & progress]
• My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. (George Eliot) [experience/development/civilization & progress/suffering]
• Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. (George Eliot) [heat/civilization & progress]
• What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another. (Havelock Ellis) [civilization & progress/exchange]
• All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [civilization & progress/instinct/opinion/knowledge]
• Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. (Henry Ford) [civilization & progress]
• I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease. (Mahatma Gandhi) [suffering/consumption/civilization & progress/disease]
• Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. (Mahatma Gandhi) [civilization & progress]
• Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [civilization & progress/civilization & progress/evolution]
• Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter. (Nadine Gordimer) [civilization & progress/men/women]
• The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. (Dag Hammarskjold) [/civilization & progress/defeat/]
• The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. (Georg Hegel) [civilization & progress/consciousness]
• Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it rallies the stragglers, its stopping places when it meditates, contemplating some new and splendid promised land that has suddenly appeared on its horizon. It has its nights of slumber; and it is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker to see the human spirit lost in shadow, and to grope in the darkness without being able to awake sleeping progress. (Victor Hugo) [civilization & progress/life/human/civilization & progress]
• Progress is the stride of God. (Victor Hugo) [civilization & progress/god]
• The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. (Victor Hugo) [civilization & progress/human]
• The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. (Thomas Jefferson) [civilization & progress/government]
• Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. (Samuel Johnson) [life/civilization & progress/enjoyment/enjoyment]
• Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance. (John F. Kennedy) [growth/civilization & progress/people/benefits]
• Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. (John F. Kennedy) [civilization & progress/civilization & progress/education/human]
• Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it. (Karl Kraus) [civilization & progress/nature/civilization & progress/human]

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