“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
“Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.” IdeasGreaterProgressEndlessSuccession Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“a little of the ready reliance on the expert comes from the desire to waive responsibillity, comes from the endless evasion of life instead of an honest facing of it. The expert is to many what the priest is, someone who knows absolutely and can tell us what to do. The king, the priest, the expert, have one after the other had our allegiance, but so far as we put any of them in the place of ourselves, we have not a sound society and neither individual nor general progress.” KnowsLittlesDesireIndividualSoundProgressHonestReadyKingsEndlessExpertsPriestsRelianceAllegianceEvasion Author:Mary Parker Follett
“Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an endless relay race. But there are links without which nothing would be passed on, and for that reason, they deserve the gratitude of all who benefited from them.” MadeReasonWould BeBornRaceProgressGratitudeDeserveTinyEndlessEnlightenedLinksLapModernityRelaysRelay Races Book:Origins: A Memoir Source: Origins: A Memoir
“I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.” MenWayLittlesPersonsDoeRealEndsMatterDoneHandsValuesIndividualStrongMistakeGoneProgressDependsIllusionBuiltWeakActivismI RealizedEndlessChainsContributionLinksReal ValuePersuadingSounder Author:Ida Tarbell
“Even time is a concept. In reality we are always in the eternal present. The past is just a memory, the future just an image or thought. All our stories about past and future are only ideas, arising in the moment. Our modern culture is so tyrannized by goals, plans, and improvement schemes that we constantly live for the future. But as Aldous Huxley reminded us in his writings, "An idolatrous religion is one in which time is substituted for eternity...the idea of endless progress is the devil's work, even today demanding human sacrifice on an enormous scale.” WritingHumansIdeasMomentsStoriesRealityTodayPastCultureGoalMemoriesProgressPlansSacrificeModernEternalDevilConceptsEternityImprovementScalesEndlessEnormousSchemesHuxleyModern CultureLive Futures Author:Jack Kornfield
“When I was secretary of state, I had to be responsible for getting a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia through the Senate. We needed, I think, 13 Republican votes to get to 67. I started working in the summer making just endless phone calls, meetings, bringing experts to talk to Republicans, and then we finally got it done at the end of the year 2010. So I'm excited to roll up my sleeves and get into the business of solving problems and making progress together.” ThinkingYearsEndsStatesDoneProblemTogetherProgressArmsNeededRepublicanSummerVoteResponsibleMeetingsPhonesExcitedNuclearRussiaEndlessExpertsCall MeSenateProblem SolvingSecretarySleevesReductionTreatiesBeing ResponsiblePhone CallsNuclear Arms Author:Hillary Clinton