Quotes About Progress

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

Without social history, economic history is barren and political history is unintelligible.

There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors.

Every program that ever helped working people, from rural electrification to Medicare, was enacted by liberals over the opposition of conservatives.

If I were going uphill, I was relatively happy since I would sooner or later be going downhill. Whereas, if I were going downhill, I wasn't all that happy because I knew I would eventually have to be going uphill.

A 6 per cent unemployment rate after twenty-four years of uninterrupted growth is a poor return for those who have been left on the margins of society.

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

Only time will set you free, just like me

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

The environmental movement up till now has necessarily been reactive. We have been clear about what we don't like. But we also need to say what we would like. We need to show where hope lies. Ecological restoration is a work of hope.

To know what comes next has been perhaps the dominant aim of materially complex societies. Yet, having achieved it, or almost achieved it, we have been rewarded with a new collection of unmet needs. We have privileged safety over experience; gained much in doing so, and lost much.

All reformers are bachelors—all extreme reformers have been bachelors.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

To save our democracy, we must restructure our economy to make us equal Americans.

You have dizzying change where there's no progress.

The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the future of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and, in a sense, we have to.

I'm not being pessimistic at all. I think God will eventually destroy this technological civilization. I'm very optimistic about that.

Education a debt due from present to future generations.