Quotes About Progress

I tend to look at potential investments from the standpoint of whether it is a valuable contribution to society.

This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.

I think the modernization of Chinese economy and Chinese society is a prime concern.

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society.

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction.

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.

We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society.

Only when you question does society move or advance at all.

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

Business is society's change agent.

Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.

If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.

In America, we have struggled too much, too long as a country trying to overcome racism and sexism and homophobia. We cannot go back to a more discriminatory society.

Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system.

I believe primary and secondary education is the bedrock of any sustainable society.