Quotes About Progress

To the extent that we can be precise about exactly where we disagree, we can make more progress in overcoming our differences.

For all these reasons, one cannot recount the history of modern science without acknowledging the crucial importance of Christianity. But this does not mean that Christianity and Christianity alone produced modern science,

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never gets done as soon as you wish it would.

Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating.

The distance between the present system and our proposal is like comparing the distance between a Model T and the space shuttle. And I should know I've seen both.

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

Whatever your destination, you will be followed by your failings.

Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.

Just like we age fast, so does the future come.

We go into labor as one person, but emerge as another.

Life goes on, along with time, which can bring your behavior, let your luck be good

Don't just crit there siticising.

Stagnant waters are death..change is movement..movement is life..

Intellectual and moral progress is not a matter of getting closer to an antecedent goal but of surpassing the past.

nature itself is a poem that we humans have written [...and] the imagination is the principle vehicle of human progress.

As we walked past a quad bike chained to a farm gate, he remarked "It's such a pity how times have changed. You can't leave a piece of machinery out on the road any more." He seemed to have forgotten that he had just been describing a time when you couldn't leave you cattle out.

Don't imagine that our world can't collapse: there is nothing inevitable about progress or peace, and the global and national social and political order we inhabit today is no more immune from catastrophe than the pre–World War II order.

Lagenliga reformer och revolution är alltså inte olika metoder för historiskt framåtskridande, vilka man kan välja efter behag vid historiens disk, som man gör med varm eller kall korv, utan de utgör olika moment i klassamhällets utveckling.

The modern proletarian class doesn't carry out its struggle according to a plan set out in some book or theory; the modern workers' struggle is a part of history, a part of social progress, and in the middle of history, in the middle of progress, in the middle of the fight, we learn how we must fight...

Women's freedom is the sign of social freedom.

Pero ya digo que la recuperación no existe: no es posible volver a ser quien eras. Existe la reinvención, y no es mala cosa. Con suerte, puede que consigas reinventarte mejor que antes. A fin de cuentas, ahora sabes más.