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Quotes About Advancement

I went straight from shenanigans to crimes against humanity.
~ George Carlin
Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.
~ Peace Pilgrim
Progress of mankind is the decadence of humanity.
~ Siddharth Katragadda
Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.
~ David Ehrenfeld
The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
~ Georg Buchner
Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.
~ Hosea Ballou
Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.
~ Max Brooks
In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity.
~ Barbara Marx Hubbard
Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.
~ Freeman Dyson
This is still a very primitive age, and I'm afraid they may not get much further here.
~ Frederick Lenz
Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.
~ Willa Cather
How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.
~ Franz Grillparzer
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of mans humanity to a man.
~ Maya Angelou
Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.
~ Sebastian Thrun
Will the highways on the Internet become more few?
~ George W. Bush
When something is 'new and improved', which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it.
~ George Carlin
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
~ Edward Gibbon
Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
~ Paul Dickson
I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth.
~ George W. Bush
Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicine as we used to know it.
~ George W. Bush
The old Televisions had an off switch.
~ Chris Bachelder
"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know."
~ Ray Bradbury
The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination.
~ Doug Casey
Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller.
~ Gary Hamel