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Quotes About Progress

The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine.
~ Tim Berners-Lee
Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
~ Marcus Garvey
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
~ Tom Robbins
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
~ T.S. Eliot
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
~ Horace Mann
We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.
~ Abdoulaye Wade
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
~ Maya Angelou
Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.
~ Dora Russell
The world can only be redeemed through action--movement--motion. Uncoerced, unbribed, and unbought, humanity will move toward the light.
~ Alice Moore Hubbard
By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.
~ Johannes Stark
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.
~ Oscar Wilde
In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
~ Stanislav Grof
Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is necessary for this lies in us.
~ Maurice Nicoll
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
~ Albert Einstein
Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
~ Ashley Montagu
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Each generation imagines that we're all going to hell. Each generation goes through a little hell and comes out heat tempered and better than before.
~ Paul Harvey
Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibility.
~ Elizabeth Blackwell
Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all.
~ Linus Pauling
Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in all reasonable probability, be what colored men make it.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate.
~ Keith Jarrett
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
~ Charles de Gaulle
In fighting for women, we fight for humanity. We fight for the future - for everyone.
~ Salma Hayek