Progress Quotes And Sayings
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”Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.”
– Jean Baudrillard
”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.”
– Jennifer Lopez
”Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”
– John F. Kennedy
“The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.”
– John Jay Chapman
”It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.”
– John Maynard Keynes
“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.”
– John Steinbeck
”A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.”
– John Stuart Mill
“Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.”
– Joseph A. Schumpeter
“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
”If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.”
– Kofi Annan
”Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.”
– Kofi Annan
”I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.”
– Lance Armstrong
”America is a country that doesn’t know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.”
– Laurence J. Peter
“One who accepts the general ideas of his time gets along smoothest, but he does the least for progress.”
– Lewis F. Korns, Thoughts
“Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.”
– Lisa Randall
“Our civilization is characterized by the word “progress.” Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
”Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.”
– Madame De Stael
“The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.”
– Madame De Stael
”Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
”Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.”
– Maimonides
”Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land.”
– Mao Zedong
”Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.”
– Marcus Garvey
”Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”
– Marian Wright Edelman
”Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
– Marie Curie
”I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.”
– Marie Curie
”All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
”The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor. That sums up the progress of an artful leader.”
– Max De Pree
“I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.”
– Mel Brooks
”If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.”
– Neil Armstrong
“There are still some people who think that we have Stalin to thank for all our progress, who quake before Stalin’s dirty under-draws, who stand at attention and salute them.”
– Nikita Khrushchev
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