Quotes About Progress

Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

When creative individuals are given a stage, they have the power to advance humanity

The struggle we're dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of what the 60s represented, is how do we define our humanity?

Fusion is the future. The mixing of ideas. The two lunch tables working together. Humanity...we're 1 people.

Do you think it's possible to change something in humanity, not risking? If someone tries to change something and is not risking, it probably means he's not changing anything.

In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity.

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable.

Sometimes humanity is the reason we can't have nice things

The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs.

What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity.

What are we doing down here? We prepare the blossoms of tomorrow. We all manure future humanity.

Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.

The wonderment of humanity leads to its greatest discoveries.

There is very little doubt, in my mind, that what the next monumental achievement of humanity will be the first landing by an Earthling, a human being, on the planet Mars.

Paul Brunton was a great original and got to a place of personal evolution that illumines the pathways of a future humanity.

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.

The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.

Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed.

It is wonderful to have great ambitions and splendid dreams as long as these ambitions and dreams are wonderful for the humanity too!

If humanity can exist for another million years, everybody's going to be a light shade of yellow-brown-red-tan.

Belonging to humanity is a great thing for us, and I think the schools can do it. So I think we can look after the quality of education on the school even as we expand the availability of schooling.