Quotes About Progress

Moreover, liberals asserted, the church maintained unsanitary practices, such as interring the remains of pious elites in the walls and beneath the floors of cathedrals, and it was unalterably opposed to science, progress, and liberal political ideas, making free use of censorship and spiritual intimidation to uphold its dogmas

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

Grow with the flow

The PC is the LSD of the '90s.

As John of the Cross writes so simply: "On this journey, we must always continue to walk if we are to arrive.

The primary killer of U.S. factory jobs isn't China or Mexico but robots.

It is so easy to coast!

Timothy S. Lane

He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." That good work begins in relationship to Jesus and is brought to completion within an ever-deepening union with him.

Nothing is more obvious than the need for change. Nothing is less obvious than what needs to change and how that change happens.

Remember, you can't avoid conflict, but it can be a place where amazing growth takes place!

Implement the agreed-upon solution.

Evaluate your implementation.

When we choose to practice true forgiveness, the relationship is not just brought back to where it was before the offense; it actually moves further down the road to maturity.

Real change does not take place until it is visible in our lives and our relationships.

If you want to enjoy any progress or blessing in your relationships, it will require you to admit your sin humbly and commit yourself to the work they require.

What tendency do you observe in your life?

brings to mind the tribulations of those groups—blacks in the 19th century, women in the 20th, gays in the 21st—who have learned through struggle that freedom is not given, only claimed.

I love this idea of the states being this laboratory of democracy where we try things out in one state, and if it works, we take it someplace else…But if you're going to do that, you actually have to take what those successful states did. Not just a piece of it. All the hard parts. (from The Economist article "The reading wars" 6/12/2021)

If you once believed that everything always turns out well in the end, you can be persuaded that nothing turns out well in the end. If you once did nothing because you thought progress is inevitable, then you can continue to do nothing because you think time moves in repeating cycles.

The politics of inevitability is an intellectual coma we put ourselves in.

Having old friends is the politics of last resort. And making new ones is the first step toward change.

Stalin had developed an interesting new theory: that resistance to socialism increases as its successes mount, because its foes resist with greater desperation as they contemplate their final defeat. Thus any problem in the Soviet Union could be defined as an example of enemy action, and enemy action could be defined as evidence of progress. P. 41

Hitler and Stalin both accepted a late-nineteenth-century Darwinistic modification: progress was possible, but only as a result of violent struggle between races or classes.