Quotes About Progress

not by gunpowder but by those who invented it would matters be settled.

Her son's growth toward manhood, at each of its stages, had seemed as extraordinary to her as if there had never existed the millions of human beings who grew up in the same way.

As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved, contrary to my first intention, to make the being of a gigantic stature, that is to say, about eight feet in height, and proportionably large. After having formed this determination and having spent some months in successfully collecting and arranging my materials, I began.

In life's earnest battle they only prevail Who daily march onward and never say fail.

The success of an economy can be assessed only by looking at what is happening to the living standards—broadly defined—of most citizens over a sustained period of time.

As medical care has improved, life expectancy has increased—on average, in the United States, by some two years between 1990 and 2000. But for the poorest group of Americans there has been no progress, and for poor women life expectancy has actually been declining.

Nuestra economía no ha funcionado bien para vastas porciones del país, pero entretanto ha sido inmensamente gratificante para los que están en la cúpula. Sin duda, esta brecha cada vez más profunda es la raíz del actual dilema del país y el de muchos otros países avanzados.

La verdadera riqueza de una nación se mide por su capacidad de brindar, de una forma sostenida, altos niveles de vida a todos sus ciudadanos.

El gradualismo —las escasas modificaciones en nuestro sistema político y económico— es inadecuado para la tarea que tenemos entre manos. Lo que se necesita son cambios drásticos

one can't really separate out any individual's contributions from those of others. Even in the context of technological change, most inventions entail the synthesis of preexisting elements rather than invention de novo. Today, at least in many critical sectors, a large fraction of all advances depend on basic research funded by the government.

hay un conjunto de políticas en esencia asequibles y capaces de hacer de una vida de clase media —una vida que parecía a nuestro alcance a mediados del siglo precedente y ahora parece cada vez más lejana— la norma en lugar de la excepción.

Trickle-up economics can work, even when trickle-down economics doesn't. Even

You know what's wrong with the world today, bro? The computers. They're ruining the human race." "Computers?" "You ever see elks mate?" Russell said.

And just as a path that goes to a mountain does not cause the mountain, the path of practice leads us to this highest freedom, but does not cause it.

mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it. That men would die was a matter of necessity; WHICH men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance. But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

Depreciating motels, junked automobiles, and quick-food joints grow like amber waves of grain.

Colonel Cathcart was impervious to absolutes. He could measure his own progress only in relationship to others, and his idea of excellence was to do something at least as well as all the men his own age who were doing the same thing even better.

And he knew something else as a social evolutionist that he might stress someday in his 'Every Change Is for the Worse' should he ever find time to write it: Gold knew that the most advanced and penultimate stage of a civilization was attained when chaos masqueraded as order, and he knew we were already there.

All change is for the worse.

American literary culture proved to be less like an explosion that went off with the Revolution than a tender plant that required over fifty years of cultivation before it blossomed.

According to the World Economic Forum, the Great Reset "will address the need for a more fair, sustainable and resilient future, and a new social contract centered on human dignity, social justice and where societal progress does not fall behind economic development.

tend to take shape, As the thing I greatly feared. Fill your mind with the great truths of life and walk forward in

The law of life is the law of growth;