Quotes About Advancement

Each drink had become a wearisome turnstile through which he had to pass to reach the next.

And changing for the better doesn't mean that he's ever going to reach good.

It was easy to understand why. Most students attend the University for several terms before being admitted to the Arcanum. Everyone here had to work their way up through the ranks the hard way. I hadn't.

Better by a long road.

It is every man's job to improve himself. A man without the benefits of education is hardly more than an animal.

Bir düÅŸünün hele, bundan yüz y?l önce olan ya da böyle bir buluÅŸ konusu olan bir ÅŸey, bugün art?k bir Allah'?n kulunu bile heyecanland?ramayacak kadar s?radan hale geliyor.

Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.

If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.

It is in underdeveloped world that he central, overriding fact of our epoch becomes manifest to the naked eye: the capitalist system, once a mighty engine of economic development, has turned into a no less formidable hurdle to human advancement.

The alarm must be sounded because it is the economic and social system of capitalism and imperialism that prevents the urgently needed full mobilization of the potential economic surplus and the attainment of rates of economic advancement that can be secured with its help.

The technology is good and it's bad. You know what you're dealing with out there musically, but my head stops at this electronic stuff. I don't quite know what I'm dealing with out there yet.

There's progress for you. A bigger and better mousetrap every month. Pretty soon, we'll all be able to kill all the mice at the same time.

separate and not quite equal, but infinitely better off than ever before.

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.

the world has been getting better: Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

If your product can make them look good in front of their colleagues and serve as a step up the corporate ladder, you will definitely earn a place at the bargaining table.

Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.

To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder...

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Becoming is superior to being.

If we do not step forward, then we will step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.

Vooruitgang is een moreel oordeel van een wezen dat zichzelf o zo graag in de spiegel bekijkt.