Quotes About Progress

What you're thinking of as the end of the story now, is only the end of the chapter.

Freedom, he was learning, was not a set point, like the temperature at which water freezes, but something mutable, a moving target.

A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something to be 'measured' and counted, is not a culture that will sustain alternatives to market-driven 'creativity.' (NYRB, Vol. LX, No. 17)

Don't assume that what happens in our future invalidates what happened in our past.

Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.

Our society routinely steals from the future.

Does wilderness exist because we do not know everything, and if we did, would there be no wilderness? As we increase mastery of our world through the spread of technology, is there a corresponding loss of wilderness?

As our inner language becomes self-loving and healthy, our feelings will surge ahead, eager to enjoy the journey.

Some things require the dark night to bloom.

Just measured my thing. It has grown one centimetre. I might be needing it soon.

My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.

The best revenge in the world is success.

It is as difficult to move down the caste ladder as it is to move up.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Life is not earning but learning.

civilization able to produce a Mahavira, a Mirabai, a Malik Ambar, a Periyar, a Muhammad Iqbal and a Mohandas Gandhi is a place open to radical experiments with self-definition. It

Science debased to the end of spreading death and of enslaving humanity, or to the end of procuring newer and newer sensations, a life spent in the whirlpool of fleeting pleasures, varied, subtle, and new, and in the worship of the almighty dollar is what most of us tend to call progress. We live more for the body than for the soul. Our body is our soul; our body is our highest Brahman.

Many Abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition. This might have some weight had not the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality.

The change needed to restore good feeling cannot be reached by remanding women to the spinning wheel, and the contentment of her grandmother, but by conceding to her every right which the spirit of the age demands. Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.