Quotes About Progress

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

Our society has got to evolve and create better ways of living.

Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

Excellence in our society is less a product of conflict and hostility than of collaboration.

No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine

Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society.

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.

In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.

It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.

If a woman is happy, then your society is happy.

The goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it.