Quotes About Progress

The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench.

And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

I think all women in all industries have more obstacles than men.

I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.

Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.

I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes men free.

Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.

We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them.

For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!

The tide tarrieth no man.

The basic postulate from which I start is that the goal of the social sciences is the liberation of man.

I think the main thing that has to end is men's defensiveness.

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

If you want to grow, find men who provoke you.

If I had a wand and could put statues in different places, one of the statues would go to a man who just died, called Norman Borlaug, who came up with the Green Revolution.

Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?

Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.

To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.