“I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.” BelieveMadeHardI BelieveProgressCommitLiberationSustaining Author:Carre Otis
“People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.” PeopleThinkingWantBelieveHas BeensTechnologyProgressBrokenAreasArtificial IntelligenceArtificialRoboticsNanotechnology Author:Peter Thiel
“I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past.” ThinkingBelieveLongPastCasesProgressPeriodsPainterAbsurdity Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.” IfsMenBelieveHumansWellsMayDoneProgressConditionsRevolutionTraditionHuman Condition Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
“I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices. And I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy. That men of all creeds have fundamental common objectives is a fact one must learn by the process of education. How to work jointly toward these objectives must be learned by experience.” ThinkingMenBelieveHeartArtMadeSaidFactsTodayBeliefI BelieveProcessCommonEducationQualityPracticeProgressMy HeartCivilizationMercyPrejudiceFundamentalsToleranceObjectivesHaving FunSuspectsCreeds Author:Frank Knox
“Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. Thus, the measure of our civilization will not be that we have done much, but what we have done with that much. I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism. The thought of modern industry in the hands of Christian charity is a dream worth dreaming. The thought of industry in the hands of paganism is a nightmare beyond imagining. The choice between the two is upon us.” IfsBelieveTwoDoneDreamHandsChristianReligionChoicesNextOpportunityI BelieveCausesHalfProgressModernCenturyIndustryCivilizationHorrorDifficultyCharityDetermineVotingNightmareBrutalPaganism Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed to Bolshevism, as much as to the Church of Rome.” BelieveHumansChurchProgressIntellectChiefsRomeEnginesHuman ProgressBolshevism Book:Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22 Source: Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22
“I want to take the word Christianity back to Christ himself, back to that mighty heart whose pulse seems to throb through the world today, that endless fountain of charity out of which I believe has come all true progress and all civilization that deserves the name. I go back to that great Spirit which contemplated a sacrifice for the whole of humanity. That sacrifice is not one of exclusion, but of an infinite and endless and joyous inclusion. And I thank God for it.” WorldWantBelieveHeartWholeSeemsSpiritHumanityNamesI BelieveChristChristianityProgressSacrificeCivilizationDeserveInfiniteCharityEndlessThank GodInclusionFountainPulseJoyousExclusionGreat Spirit Author:Julia Ward Howe
“Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under examination had conceivably been cheered up, by a short study of the Middle Ages. The hydrogen bomb, the South African Government, Chioang Kaidick, Senator McCarthy himself, would then seem a light price to pay for no longer being in the Middle Ages.” BelieveHumansRealityLightSeemsGovernmentAgePayStudyProgressMiddleStudentsOughtSouthBombsCheerSouth AfricaSenatorsMiddle AgesExaminationHydrogenHuman ProgressHydrogen Bomb Book:Lucky Jim Source: Lucky Jim
“The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn't absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are.” WorldBelieveMeanIdeasEndsAgeHumanityFallViewsKnownTechnologyProgressMankindObviousSeekingAbsurdRepeatsDelusionTrapsDesirableScience And TechnologyApocalypticScientific KnowledgeGreat Progress Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein