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Quotes About Progress

From the poorest of countries to the richest of nations, education is the key to moving forward in any society.
~ Nelson Mandela
How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
~ Bill Nye
We've got to start thinking of school as a lifelong process. That's the only way we'll keep abreast and be able to share in the wealth of the new "knowledge society."
~ Price Pritchett
I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.
~ Gerrit Smith
Fusion will be ready when society needs it.
~ Lev Artsimovich
In a free society, you get what you celebrate.
~ Dean Kamen
All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.
~ Joseph Lancaster
Our task is not to fight old battles, but to show that there is a third way, a way of marrying together an open competitive society and successful economy with a just and decent society.
~ Tony Blair
I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can't get away from them.
~ Agnes Sligh Turnbull
You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal.
~ Jill Soloway
Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.
~ Vladimir Lenin
The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.
~ Ron Kind
It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.
~ Isaac Asimov
The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.
~ Albert J. Nock
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.
~ Jimmy Carter
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.
~ James Henry Breasted
In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.
~ Robert Bly
The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.
~ Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.
~ Nelson Mandela
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
~ Victor Pinchuk
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
~ Ludwig von Mises
We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion.
~ Ian Somerhalder