Quotes About Progress

We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.

No matter how far society "progresses," our thirst for community and connection will never diminish. Bars satisfy this need.

The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves.

You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.

We cannot go back to a racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic type of society.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

You cannot get a new economy without a new society.

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

What has changed in 40 years? It's very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

If Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society.

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.

Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today's high tech society.

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.

It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the processnof doing.