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Quotes About Progress

As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.
~ Bill Gates
Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?
~ Isaac Asimov
It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
~ Constance Baker Motley
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society
~ Audre Lorde
One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.
~ Wallace Stevens
While we still live in a capitalist society, we of course will fight for whatever reforms help make life better for working people.
~ Kshama Sawant
If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.
~ Paul A. Baran
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.
~ Joseph Stalin
Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.
~ Richard Hamming
We have not yet built a communist society.It is not so easy to build such a society.
~ Joseph Stalin
As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it.
~ Bear Grylls
Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.
~ Anita Roddick
Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
~ P. Chidambaram
Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
~ Bernard Baruch
What makes for the good society is a sound economy. Without it, all the rest falls apart.
~ Llewellyn Rockwell
I would like people to pay attention to the idea of rational empathy, and that as a society, we are walking down a path that's well-trodden throughout history.
~ Chris Kluwe
Part of the problem is we had so far to go, given the deep homophobia in our society. But, the movement is very real. The movement is very real.
~ Cornel West
The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.
~ Walter Weyl
Real change in society must start from individual initiative.
~ Dalai Lama
Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.
~ Dalai Lama
I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.
~ Daniel Suarez