Quotes About Progress

If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.

No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.

Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.

The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.

Designers are to be in connection with what's happening with the movement of society.

What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.

Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival.

A society without its dreamers can never be free.

if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.

People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human control.

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slavery is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you.

Una mujer solo retrocede para coger carrerilla

I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published.... You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep the heart of that worship in your work. As time goes by, you get other influences and find your own voice.

Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment.

Utopia' used to denote a coveted, dreamt-of distant goal to which progress should, could and would eventually bring the seekers after a world better serving human needs. In contemporary dreams, however, the image of 'progress' seems to have moved from the discourse of shared improvement to that of individual survival. Progress is no longer thought about in the context of an urge to rush ahead, but in connection with a desperate effort to stay in the race.

It is the turnover, not the volume of purchases, that measures success in the life of homo consumens.

La posibilidad de contener y asimilar la imparable masa de innovaciones es cada vez menos promisoria, por no decir inalcanzable.