Quotes About Progress

To dismantle the system that sustains civilization is very difficult and takes time, but we are achieving it, bit by bit. The complex and fascinating task of inventing a new order to replace it is long.

More than forty years ago Bella Abzug, the famous activist and congresswoman from New York, summarized the above in one sentence: "In the twenty-first century women will change the nature of power instead of power changing the nature of women." My

We spent a good part of the twentieth century trying out various forms of revolution, from Marxism to savage capitalism, ranging through each and every intermediate shading. Our hope that a change in government can improve our luck is like hoping to win the lottery: totally without rational foundation.

Trueba continued polishing his reputation as a rake, sowing the entire region with his bastard offspring, reaping hatred, and storing up sins that barely nicked him because he had hardened his soul and silenced his conscience with the excuse of progress.

Se creó un aparente milagro económico a un gran costo social

no hay finales perfectos. Cada uno lo hace lo mejor que puede, eso es todo.

pero no me gustan los niños; lo único bueno de los niños es que crecen.

Las sociedades más atrasadas y miserables son aquellas en las que las mujeres están sometidas. Si se ayuda a una mujer, sus hijos no se mueren de hambre, y si las familias progresan, se beneficia la aldea, pero esta verdad tan evidente es ignorada en el mundo de la filantropía, donde por cada dólar que se destina a programas de mujeres, se entregan veinte a los de hombres

Jaime was convinced that after so many years of struggle the Socialists were finally going to win. This he attributed to the fact that the people had become conscious of their needs and their own strength.

More than forty years ago Bella Abzug, the famous activist and congresswoman from New York, summarized the above in one sentence: "In the twenty-first century women will change the nature of power instead of power changing the nature of women.

Vamos a acabar con los privilegios de la oligarquía, la Iglesia, los latifundistas y el resto de los explotadores del pueblo. Debemos defender la democracia, amigos; pero recuerden que no todo ha de ser política. Sin ciencia, industria y técnica no hay progreso posible, y sin música y arte no hay alma

había aprendido en los libros que el mundo cambia constantemente y la humanidad evoluciona, pero los cambios no llegan solos, se obtienen con mucha guerra.

Todo es cuestión de seguir avanzando paso a paso hasta el final.

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

Sure I can sit around and do absolutely nothing for the next nine years and I might survive that long but it's not going to take New Zealand anywhere.

I want to leave New Zealand in better shape than I found it. I know the job of prime minister is not forever and I'm going to do the best I can every day to make that difference.

After a good training camp, pushing myself, learning new things, I always feel confident coming back to New Zealand.

We aspire to be a government for all New Zealanders and one that will seize the opportunity to build a fairer, better New Zealand.

There are some people who have helped to advance me and other girls, but the fashion industry is always behind popular culture. They think they understand the zeitgeist. They don't know anything about the zeitgeist.

I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind.

I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on!

Because Led Zeppelin weren't having to worry about doing singles, each time we went in to record, it was a body of work for an album. So you could get the shift and the movement forwards as opposed to having to be rooted back to a single that might have been done a year ago.

Am I the man who killed Deep Purple? I don't think so. I think every band from that era, even if you look at Led Zeppelin, if you look at their first four albums, they're extremely different from one another, and I've never made the same album twice.

If you were the first person ever to design an application for the iPhone and you patented it, you would be very, very better off than we are right now, you know? But you've got to be the first one to do it. So I figured that Led Zeppelin or the Stones were going to do it unless we just got on to it. So I got cracking with the guys from Apple.