“There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced.” CountrySeemsSpiritualValuesProgressMaterialsEnvironmentalExtremesParadiseBalancedStewardshipSpiritual Values Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“One of the chief inhibitions to human progress arises because of the extreme slowness with which the advances in knowledge become translated into action for the benefit of society as a whole. There is no step more important for the removal of that inhibition than that of providing for intimate contact between the leaders in the fields of pure and applied science.” HumansImportantWholeActionLeaderStepsProgressFieldsPureBenefitsExtremesAriseContactChiefsIntimateProvidingRemovalHuman ProgressInhibitionsSlownessApplied Science Book:The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan Source: The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan
“Unfortunately, the belief that women are a minority is endemic in most cultures around the world. Obviously some take it to the extreme where violence against women is legal and supported and in other cultures it is more subversive and easy to dismiss as "progress."” WorldCultureBeliefEasyProgressViolenceExtremesAround The WorldMinoritiesViolence Against WomenSubversiveOther Cultures Author:Gillian Anderson
“The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.” PeopleShouldHumansTodayNumbersOpinionProgressAtheismOughtTomorrowExtremesPositive AtheismMediumsDecentOriginalityModerationGood SenseUnreasonableHereticInquisitionSpanish Inquisition Author:Maurice Maeterlinck
“We always come back to the same misunderstanding. The Jews because of their spirit of revolt, their exclusiveness and the Messianic tendencies which animate them are in essence revolutionaries, but they do not realize it and believe that they are working for 'progress.'...but that which they call justice is the triumph of Jewish principles in the world of which the two extremes are plutocracy and socialism. Present day Anti-Semitism is a revolt against the world of today, the product of Judaism.” WorldBelieveTwoTodaySpiritRealizingJusticePrinciplesProgressProductsEssenceJewExtremesSocialismTendenciesTriumphRevolutionaryJudaismMisunderstandingRevoltPresent DayAnti SemitismPlutocracyTwo Extremes Author:Leon V. DePoncins
“While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience.” SeemsSimpleProgressLimitsHighestBoundsAppreciationExtremesRidersSuperhumanFreestyle Author:Craig Kelly