Quotes About Progress

Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.

Black women must challenge black men to live up to their best in every arena of the culture - at job, at home, in school and in religious arenas.

a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something

If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something. Otherwise, you will never get anywhere.

A generation ago there were a thousand men to every opportunity, while today there are a thousand opportunities to every man.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

[on the Republican party] A party with a narrow vision, a party that is afraid of the future.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.

I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances.

God invented man, and man invented the metric system.

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.

I don't care how far we've come with "women's liberation," with all these things. In a man's mind, he still needs to be the support of his family. He needs to hold up the world.

The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.

If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.

Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.

Among men who are really free, every form of industry becomes more rapidly improved - all the arts flourish more gracefully - all the sciences extend their range.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.

Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?