Quotes About Progress

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.

When individuals change, society will change. And when society changes, the whole world will change. The welfare of the individual is bound up with the welfare of society as a whole.

Men build society and society builds men.

Only the person who does not evade conflict and directs his efforts in keeping with the course of society's development can be an effective leader.

We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

A revolution doesn't happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.

Society's future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.

In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it.

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.

There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

Society goes on and on and on. It is the same with ideas.

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.

In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

Free markets are the real people's revolution.