Human Advancement Quotes

• The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Custom
  • Obstacle
  • Human Advancement

• How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Faults
  • Quality Of Life
  • Human Advancement

• ... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

  

  George Eliot
  • Believe
  • Business
  • London