Quotes About Progress

As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colorful.

Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

I think the free-enterprise system has been great for society. That doesn't mean it's completely perfect. And also, when people say capitalism, I'm not really sure what they mean.

I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.

Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?

Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest achievement. We have to turn that around.

The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.

If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

It seems like we're not learning as a community, as a society.

... the fouling of the nest which has been typical of man's activity in the past on a local scale now seems to be extending to the whole world society.

The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.

The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning.

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.

Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.

Because of technological breakthroughs, the society will need fewer and fewer unskilled laborers.

Society of thinking men! This kind of society has only one destiny: To Rise!

Creativity is not merely about cute pictures drawn by kindergartners. It is about the ability to create new enterprises, organizations, and institutions that fundamentally change society.

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are done, we recognize one thing: that the human race has been badly manhandled, but that it has moved forward.