Quotes About Progress

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

If possible, forget the past. Look forward to the future.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

All progress means war with society.

The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.

The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

The UN is committed to the goal of ensuring that all nations share in economic, social, & scientific progress. It delivers humanitarian assistance to the victims of wars and natural disasters.

Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned.

Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.

Success and glory are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear.

War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.

You hold in your hands the future of the world.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.

The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary technical development and destructiveness of the instruments of war.

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.

Canada entered World War I as a colony and came out a nation.

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.