Quotes About Progress

Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.

There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.

We can't impede progress in the name of environmental action that yields little for the environment and even less for our people.. and we should look at the environment as an economic opportunity.

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.

Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.

Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well.

We try to invest in companies that are putting together environmental programs and working to improve their overall social and environmental self.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

During the 1960s, we used twice as much oil as during the 1950s. And in each of those decades, more oil was consumed than in all of mankind's previous history.

There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced.

One of the things that Ive always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

There are no articles any more that dream about the cities of tomorrow.

While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.

What is urgently needed is a bold new move from a consumer economy to a conserver economy in all of the developed countries, and particularly in the United States.

Mankind is busily manufacturing its way into extinction.

The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision. . .

No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.

Reality has changed, and we changed with it. However, I never changed sides. I have always been on the side of justice, democracy and social equality.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

The prerequisite for more economic equality in the world is industrialization. And this is possible only through increased capital investment, increased capital accumulation.