Quotes About Progress

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.

The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.

Some people are boys longer than others.

Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.

I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, an that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire." (From Rebecca)

It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.

A great man may commence life in a hovel.

And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.

I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.

I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.

As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards ("marcher vers", Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.

To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spirit.

Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.

Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort

Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded)

He could not change the man he had been, but these hands would make him the man he could be

What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.

The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink Together. / Dwarf'd or godlike, bound or free; miserable, / How shall men grow? - Let her be / All that not harms distinctive womanhood.

Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.