Quotes About Progress

Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new.

Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in our future.

Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.

The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage.

The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days.

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

The final story, the final chapter of Western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

If all men labored hard every hour of the twenty-four, they could not do all the work of the world.

No man need stay the way he is.

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?

Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so.

I had Micah Richards as a player at 16 and he was a man then. What is he now? A bigger man, probably

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.