Quotes About Progress

Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.

The wars of kings were over; the wars of peoples had begun.

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist

War is out of date, obsolete.

Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.

The class war is over.

Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.

History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust.

Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

We can't be fighting the last war. We have to be preparing to fight the new war.

When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.

War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.

So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress. . . . Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity.

The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.

We are the people who won the Second World War and saved the world. We went to the moon. We gave the world the cell phone and Bruce Springsteen. There's no telling what we can accomplish.

By the 20th century, war ceased to be an encounter between two armies. It became an encounter between two societies, because a factory worker producing a gun or a bomb is as deadly as a pilot.