Quotes About Progress

On ne saurait faire une omelette sans casser des oeufs [You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs].

Parvis e glandibus quercus [Tall oaks from little acorns grow].

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis [Times change, and we change with them too].

Errare humanum est [To err is human].

To live a life through is not like crossing a field.

It is not humanity that will tear the land asunder, but a certain inhumanity born from ingratitude and the explosion of souls_ in the usual name of progress.

If we're going to get the world running on nuclear power instead of coal one day – and let me tell you, after living in Manchester, that'll make a big difference to a great many people

Por eso necesitamos adquirir otra vez la vitalidad y apertura del niño. No podemos permanecer infantiles, porque entonces no avanzaríamos en el proceso de nuestro desarrollo. El arte de vivir consiste por una parte en hacernos progresivamente más maduros y más adultos, pero por otra parte en conservar vivo en nosotros el niño interior.

each morning we're born again of yesterday nothing remains what's left began today

La historia de nuestra civilización es, hasta cierto punto, la historia de un esfuerzo persuasivo por extender los mejores «sentimientos morales» a círculos cada vez más amplios de humanidad

This is not to suggest that neurobiology can save the world, but simply that the gradual accrual of knowledge about human beings can help us find better ways for the management of human affairs.

e seres humanos que inventam flautas, escrevem poesia, acreditam eu Deus, conquistam o Planeta e o espaço em seu redor, combatem doenças para atenuar o sofrimento, mas também não hesitam em destruir outros seres humanos para seu ganho pessoal, inventam a internet, descobrem maneiras de a transformar num instrumento de progresso e de catástrofe e, ainda por cima, se interrogam sobre as bactérias, formigas, abelhas - e si próprios.

The good news, however, is that the self also has made reason and scientific observation possible, and reason and science, in turn, have been gradually correcting the misleading intuitions prompted by the unaided self. Overcoming

The rise of human cultures should be credited to both conscious feeling and creative intelligence.

The destiny of nations depends upon the manner in which they feed themselves.

Inequality of outcome among today's generation is the source of the unfair advantage received by the next generation. If we are concerned about equality of opportunity tomorrow, we need to be concerned about inequality of outcome today.

Many people in Western Europe in the year 1000 expected the world to come to an end. But instead of ending, conditions of life - particularly in the Low Countries - began to improve.

Mistakes are never frowned upon as a piece of glaring inefficiency, but are regarded as very good lessons for us by which we can profit to the fullest extent.

The people of the earth have it in their power to see that modern inventions are employed solely for their spiritual and material good.

ten centuries ago people would have snorted just like that at the idea of a black as Head on this planet. Such narrow stupidity seems fantastic to us now. Our own prejudices will seem just as comical to our great-great-grandchildren.

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

My message to Sinn Fein is clear. The settlement train is leaving. I want you on that train. But it is leaving anyway and I will not allow it to wait for you.

We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.