Progress Quotes

• … every nation which makes no forward progress sinks lower and lower, and must ultimately fall

  

  Friedrich List
  • Fall
  • Progress

• Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it.

  

  Charles Scott Sherrington
  • Progress

• The goal of the Creator is for each entity to make a conscious choice to again seek Oneness, out of our own free will - not because anyone else forced us to. If we are told what to do and what to believe, then we have learned nothing and will not make any progress. Perhaps the single most basic realization to make is that we live in a loving Universe. If we are all One Being, then it is foolish for us to hate anyone, as we are only hating ourselves.

  

  David Wilcock
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Free

• Consider all of the possibilities for positive global progress if we utilized nonviolence as the central value of our culture, encompassing our law enforcement and labor practices, which currently include people in numerous nations working for inhumane wages in unhealthy conditions.

  

  Bernice King
  • People
  • Culture
  • Law

• No progress, either moral or material, can be made in a world which is frozen, like ours, into a rigid mold of suppression of liberties.

  

  Damon Knight
  • World
  • Moral
  • Frozen

• Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Progress

• Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

  

  George Gurdjieff
  • Struggle
  • Progress
  • Habit

• I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.

  

  Iman
  • Thinking
  • Present
  • Planning

• But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Nature
  • Desire
  • Mean

• Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Law
  • Purpose
  • Justice

• In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

  

  Charles William Eliot
  • World
  • Opinion
  • Intelligence

• All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering... tends instead to favor humanity's destruction.

  

  Konrad Lorenz
  • World
  • Understanding
  • Suffering

• Stronger families. Stronger communities. A stronger America. It is this kind of prosperity - broad, shared, built on a thriving middle class - that has always been the source of our progress at home. It’s also the foundation of our power and influence throughout the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Home
  • Power

• Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

  

  Charles Kettering
  • Good
  • Progress

• I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress.

  

  John Templeton
  • Progress

• The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Progress

• Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in a automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at a terrific speed and driven by a four-year-old child. The signposts along the way are all marked "progress."

  

  Lord Dunsany
  • People
  • Children
  • Environment

• There is simply no way our nation can progress if its women population is left behind.

  

  Pratibha Patil
  • Women
  • Progress

• Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed may provide income security; it is an attack upon Want. But Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack. The others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness.

  

  William Beveridge
  • Ignorance
  • Policy
  • Reconstruction

• Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

  

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • Knowledge
  • Human
  • Immediately

• I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.

  

  John Dramani Mahama
  • Progress

• Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.

  

  Brent Scowcroft
  • Work
  • Together
  • Progress

• Indeed, if what you do offends me but does not harm me otherwise, there should be a very high bar for prohibiting your act. After all, any ban, and certainly any vigilante acts to enforce it, may offend you as much, or more, than the offence to me. Excessive political correctness stifles progress as much as excessive license and disrespect.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • May
  • High
  • Political

• Here was a place where men and life and death had reached the lowest form of degradation. How could any reward in national progress even faintly justify the establishment and operation of such a place?

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • Life
  • Men
  • Death

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