“Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction. The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.” GrowthProgressEconomicWallConflictDiversityDestructionDemocraticIsolationThriveAgendasDivisionHorizonTolerateEconomic GrowthExtremist Author:Abdallah II
“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.” LifeCultureProgressHonestHonestyFutureDiversitySocial JusticePositive AttitudeNegotiationDisagreementEnemy Of Progress Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“The vigorous branching of life's tree, and not the accumulating valor of mythical marches to progress, lies behind the persistence and expansion of organic diversity in our tough and constantly stressful world. And if we do not grasp the fundamental nature of branching as the key to life's passage across the geological stage, we will never understand evolution aright.” IfsWorldLyingBehindsProgressTreeStageKeysEvolutionDiversityToughFundamentalsPersistenceMarchPassagesExpansionStressfulVigorousValor Book:I Have Landed: Splashes and Reflections in Natural History Source: I Have Landed: Splashes and Reflections in Natural History
“Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that worse may come from an attempt to suppress differences than from acceptance of them. For this reason, the kind of peace that makes progress possible is best assured by the mutual checks created by a balance of forces-alike in the sphere of internal politics and of international relations.” KindMayLongRealReasonPoliticsForcePeaceDifferencesJusticePowerProgressAcceptanceBalanceDiversitySpringRelationIndependenceInternationalToleranceChecksRecognitionInternalsMutualSpheresIndividualismAssuredVitalityInternational RelationsToleration Book:Why Don't We Learn from History? Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?
“The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.” MenHumansIndividualProgressDiversityIncreaseSacredIntellectFreedom Of ThoughtRefinementDifferentiation Author:Felix Adler
“Tolerance of diversity is imperative, because without it, life would lose its savor. Progress in the arts, in the sciences, in the patterns of social adjustment springs from diversity and depends upon a tolerance of individual deviations from conventional ways and attitudes.” WayArtIndividualSocialLosesAttitudeProgressDependsDiversitySpringPatternsToleranceConventionalImperativesAdjustmentDeviationConventional Ways Author:Alan Barth