Quotes About Progress

It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.

There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies.

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.

We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.

I wanted a racially just society. I wanted to end wars. I wanted to end white supremacy. I wanted to create a world that was based on egalitarianism, sharing, racial justice.

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

Today the economic development of Armenia is as important as victory in the war was yesterday. Our battle has moved from the field of blood and heroism, to the economic field.

Just as the world cannot live on wars, so people cannot on revolutions

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Change doesn't come without struggle.

He wanted to open her up like a new WalMart.

I'm pretty sure the past is only good for one thing and that's getting a person where they are at the present.

We're all works in progress, honey. And believe me when I tell you that I've had to work harder than most.

And no matter what anybody says, I don't believe all this trouble started when women got the vote. As far as I'm concerned, it goddamn well got started when you taught each other how to read.

Somos todos obras inacabadas, pequeña. Y créeme cuando te digo que he tenido que trabajar más duro que la mayoría. -Creo que ha hecho un buen trabajo.

We all have a lot of rubbish in our pasts. At some point, we need to step over the piles and get on with it.

No siempre llega antes quien más corre.

Perfection is a moving target

You can learn, but you've got to give yourself time to pick up the basics, to practice, and maybe even to fail once or twice.