Quotes About Progress

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.

In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.

The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink Together.

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.

ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.

In capitalism, profit does not come out of another man's hardship; it comes out of new production of new wealth that's never existed before.

Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.

We've sent a man to the moon and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week but for some reason nobody's ever done it.

The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.

Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.

Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.

Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.

The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.

Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.

I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or '60s or '70s.

When men change, maybe Bond will change.

If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.

Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.

Man is a tool-making animal