Quotes About Progress

The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.

History must stay open, it is all humanity.

We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and millions and millions of years.

There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should be, in spite of progress.

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.

Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.

Humanity had to go through egoic madness and then outgrow it.

The greatest need in the world at this moment is the transformation of human nature.

Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.

If nuclear energy is used for the sake of humanity, then I say yes. But if it is used destructively, then no.

If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.

Art of all periods teaches us that humanity changes, and that a period, once past, never returns.

Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.

Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future

The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity.

As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity

Bill Hicks wasn't just a comic, he was a crusader against humanity's relentless capacity to underachieve

Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.

Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.