Progress Quotes - page 4

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. (Liu Xiaobo)
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life. View quote
Nam June Paik
We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the general progress of the human mind. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. View quote
Kofi Annan
Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress. View quote
Maimonides
A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
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. View quote
George Eliot
Nothing is so fatal to the progress of the human mind as to suppose that our views of science are ultimate; that there are no mysteries in nature; that our triumphs are complete, and that there are no new worlds to conquer. View quote
Humphry Davy
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago. (Norman Borlaug)
Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries. View quote
Norman Borlaug
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. View quote
Karel Čapek
The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species. View quote
Adam Ferguson
Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
All progress means war with society. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies. View quote
George W. Bush
A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion. View quote
Richard E. Byrd
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. View quote
Anthony de Mello
Progress is The law of life man is not Man as yet. (Robert Browning)
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. View quote
Shirley Chisholm
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism. View quote
Erich Honecker
Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress. View quote
Wynton Marsalis