Quotes About Progress

Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.

I am glad so many women singers are being heard in music today. It is healthy for music . . . healthy because it means a lot of men are listening!

Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history.

Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he's working toward something.

As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?

The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?

I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.

Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how far he can proceed in the culture that belongs to the whole of humanity.

I'm not perfect, I'm a flawed man, but I'm willing to try to get better, I'm willing to listen.

There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.

Now that we're men, I changed my underwear.

By changing the way you do routine things you allow a new man to grow inside you.

Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.

Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.

To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.

Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.

Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.

The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity.

As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.