Quotes About Progress

It is the effectiveness of that power that is lagging, not its potential.

la respuesta a la pregunta de cómo adquirir y retener el máximo poder posible era evidente: haciéndose grande.

La adaptación de los partidos políticos al siglo XXI es una prioridad.

Hay décadas en las que no pasa nada y hay semanas en las que suceden décadas»

el proceso de apertura política y profundización de la democracia ni es lineal ni es universal. Siempre habrá excepciones y contraejemplos.

Working-class and lower-middle-class people across the developed world have lost confidence in their ability to achieve the life that their parents enjoyed during the heyday of the postwar boom.

when people conclude that their economic and social progress is blocked, and they are stuck in a lower rung than the one they expected to occupy in society. Status dissonance is amplified by the sense that rather than coming closer to your rightful place in society, you're falling further and further below your natural spot in the pecking order.

Es posible, sin embargo, que el aspecto de la revolución de la movilidad que más está transformando el poder sea la urbanización.

660 million Chinese have escaped poverty since 1981, for example. In Asia, the percentage of those living in extreme poverty dropped from 77 percent of the population in the 1980s to 14 percent in 1998.

To put it simply, power no longer buys as much as it did in the past. In the twenty-first century, power is easier to get, harder to use—and easier to lose. From boardrooms and combat zones to cyberspace, battles for power are as intense as ever, but they are yielding diminishing returns.

There are more Grandmasters now than ever before: 1,200-plus today versus 88 in 1972. And

But its consequences for stability are fraught with danger. How can we continue the welcome advances of plural voices and opinions, initiative and innovation, without at the same time driving ourselves into a crippling paralysis that could undo this progress very quickly?

Juro delante de Dios, juro delante de la Patria, juro delante de mi pueblo que sobre esta moribunda Constitución haré cumplir, impulsaré las transformaciones democráticas necesarias para que la República nueva tenga una Carta Magna adecuada a los nuevos tiempos. Lo juro.

Similarly, the long-entrenched power of the major organized religions is decaying at a remarkably rapid pace.

La paciencia es quizá el recurso más escaso de todos en un mundo en el que la degradación del poder sigue su curso.

less so than their predecessors.

I always do the first line well, but I have trouble with the others.

We have changed all that.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

What you do today and tomorow has an effect on the rest of your life

Michael Oldstone, in his book Viruses, Plagues, and History, wrote: "The obliteration of diseases that impinge on our health is a regal yardstick of civilization's success, and those (scientists) who accomplish that task will be among the true navigators of a brave new world."     With

and heading for the next, running the first horse into the second corral, throwing the saddle on the next bronc and then heading down the line to the next place and the next until winding up back at the first place just about at

Yes, we'll have to put a stop to this bookworming. No future in that.