Quotes About Progress

by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.

Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.

If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.

You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.

History is an accumulation of error.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.

The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality.

History is where tensions were.

History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.

If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a series of mistakes.

The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.

I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.

Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.

When I think of black television and history, I always use The Cosby Show as the bar.

Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

I'm not sure history has ended.

The National Football league is on the wrong side of history.

No great leader in history fought to prevent change.

Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history.

We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.

It is always our objective to have close ties with the United States. We're at a transitional period of our history and we're on a road to reform.

It's not often as an actor you get to be involved with a project that seems to be on the right side of history.