Quotes About Progress

Many of the good things would never have happened if the bad events hadn't happened first.

In those days [1935] I would read what the opposition papers got out, and I'd say to myself, 'What I'm doing just isn't good enough.'

A little revolution is a good thing.

I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing.

I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.

I think that's in my case everything I do takes so long because I don't have one direction. I'm just doing what I feel at the moment. It would probably be good, though, to have some direction.

I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good.

Personally, I really hope I can treat everyone equally. I think I have done a pretty good job so far but I know I can do it better.

It's highly virtuous to say we'll be good, but wecan't do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strongpull, and a pull all together before some of us even get ourfeet set in the right way.

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

Even the worst days have an ending, and the best days have a beginning.

We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis.

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.

If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

Globalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs.

The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.

We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments.

Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.