Quotes About Progress

Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.

The power that holds Africa is human, and it is recognized that whatsoever man has done, man can do.

Heirs Holdings has the ambition to generate at least a quarter of Nigeria's power consumption needs in the next five years

Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.

Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.

Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform

Pity the Party without enough woman power - there will always be dreamers and leaders, but the dreams won't come true, nor will the leaders reach their goal, without the ready doers.

Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.

The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.

I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.

I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.

A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.

The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.

The biblical picture is not one of an upward, linear progress or a precipitous, downward decline. It is a more complicated picture of a fallen world in which there is a gospel of power.

We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.

All the greatest achievements of mind have been beyond the power of unaided individuals.

The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.

Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

There is no one in al-Nahda that is violence is a means of change or to keep power. Everyone in al-Nahda believes that democracy is the only way to reach power and to stay in power.

A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.