Quotes About Progress

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

For my generation, the monetary union has always been about forging peace.

International exchanges are not a great tide to sweep away all differences, but they will slowly wear away at the obstacles to peace as surely as water wears away a hard stone.

The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - - mental, financial you name it.

To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.

Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

[The United States and Israel] share many common objectives ... chief of which is the building of a better world in which every nation can develop its resources and develop them in freedom and peace.

Welfare reforms and the whole "happy" exploitation movement are not "baby steps." They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.

Another name for peace is development.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon; but he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbor!

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.

I am looking forward and I am hoping that I will be the catalyst that makes India and Pakistan live in peace forever.

I believe we're entering a new era, where dynamic female leaders will have an opportunity to bring greater harmony and peace to the planet.

Books are a better investment in our future than bullets. Books, not bullets, will pave the path towards peace and prosperity.

I am confident that the day is not far distant when the light of peace shine again.

Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

We will not let the price of peace be greater than the price of war, we will firmly safeguard the achievements of the past 13 years under former President Karzai.

We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.