Quotes About Progress

The world is my country, the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god, the future of man is my heaven.

Women are opening businesses at twice the rate of men ... Forty percent of businesses will be owned by women. Women are saying, I don't belong in this company. I'm sick of fighting this battle.

He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.

A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.

A man is worked on by what he works on.

The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

Man is something to be surpassed.

I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.

In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.

While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

Im a machine man, and I head a machine.

The art of negotiation is perhaps what most deeply distinguishes man from the animals, and it is this art and this will to negotiate that has brought man forward, elevated him beyond the animals.

Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs as collectors.

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.

There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.

Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.