Quotes About Progress

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

Humanity is reaching the end of the evolutionary stage of ego. The closer we get to the end, the more dysfunctional humanity becomes.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

Emphasis should be laid on the evolution of humanity.

We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.

We live in a world where black humanity is a relatively new idea.

When the State withers, humanity flowers.

That is our larger destiny: to allow the Earth to organize in a new way, in a manner impossible all the billions of years prior to humanity

The age of Chivalry is gone. An age of Humanity has come.

What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.

Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself.

I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle.

The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

Dreaming is one of humanity's greatest gifts; it champions aspiration, spurs innovation, leads to change, and propels the world forward.

The aim of development must be neither producerism not consumerism, but the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, which are not only needs of humanity...

Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.

I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.

I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.