Quotes About Progress

Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.

When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.

Civilization, or "the system" or "society" or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men.

The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.

Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.

Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

We are the generation that came of age in an ageless society.

Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.

Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.

Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.

It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.

I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.

Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.

Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.

It's crucial to understand that as a society, we can reorganize. We can reorganize socially, politically, and economically, and we can reorganize according to our values.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.

I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.