Quotes About Progress

Now that probably didn't happen right off the bat

if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that women are inferior, you haven't made any progress

It can be fun to feel exceptional--to be the loophole woman, to have a whole power thing, to be an honorary man. But if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that women are inferior, you haven't made any progress.

It didn't help when Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael made his notorious comment to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: "The position of women in SNCC is prone.

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

We Can't learn without pain.

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur(nothing moves without having been moved).

All who have meditated upon the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depend upon the education of youth.

Der Anfang ist die Hälfte vom Ganzen.

Well begun is half done.

Even when the laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unchanged.

Learning begins at the level of the learner.

Radicalism is a luxury of stability because only when we have everything under control can we dare to change things.

It was only at a late point in its progress that a chorus of comedians was officially granted by the archon; they used to be mere volunteers.

There never was a time when there was not motion.

Things speed up as you circle the drain. Armistead Maupin on ageing

There is no fifth destination.

He should have made a checklist for every step of this transformational journey to radical self-expression.

Life goes on, sport.

it is the only advanced society in which the incomes of the majority have not risen in the 1980s and 1990s, despite steady increases in productivity.

Life's not a one-shot special. It's a friggin' on-going series. Live it!