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Quotes About Progress

Freedom is not nurtured by nations preparing for war.
~ William Appleman Williams
There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease.
~ Komla Dumor
Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease is the inability to subsist, and the result of the disease is war.
~ Sun Yat-sen
The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
~ Benjamin Rush
The Venus Project is a translation of all religions: The end of war, the end of poverty, the brotherhood of humanity. If that isn't spiritual, like I've said before, I don't know what is.
~ Jacque Fresco
The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.
~ Robert McNamara
As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.
~ Jacque Fresco
The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered on a new and enlarged arena.
~ Jefferson Davis
Our universities today are better equipped than ever, and the wars keep getting worse.
~ Jacque Fresco
We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.
~ Leonid Brezhnev
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
~ Sun Tzu
Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
~ Hans Rosling
The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.
~ Jefferson Davis
It was the dawn of the third age of mankind.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.
~ Jonathan Swift
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.
~ Vera Brittain
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.
~ William Blake
It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.
~ Ross Perot
For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.
~ Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country.
~ Robert E. Lee