Quotes About Progress

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

Those who do not know history will forever remain children

As we struggle to overcome our troubles, we are making history and fulling our destiny. Keep pressing!

There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.

It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.

Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from.