Quotes About Progress

We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.

We're not living in a one-dimensional society. You can't just talk about, you know, the horrible things in life and the destruction.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.

If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.

Girls' education is the single best investment that any society can make.

I would say, compared with the 19th century, compared with most previous history, this is as good or better a society than any which man has ever made. But that doesn't mean it is such a good one.

It's too bad our society isn't further along.

I believe in a free society, where aspiration and effort can make the difference in every life. Where your starting point is not your destiny and where your first chance is not your only chance.

In order to make India prosperous, all sections and regions of the society needed to be prosperous.

Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.

Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.

Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.

The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.

If we can just try every day to be the best versions of ourselves, we are offering to the world the best addition to society.

A society will manufacture an image of progress and locate it in the direction it wishes to take us.

The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.

We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.

It's a different world we're going into but it's all based on the Internet. It's all based on these connections. If you start limiting the connections, you're going backwards as a society.

People are dynamic. They change, and soon as there are enough of you, things change [for a whole society].