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“Now it has appeared to me unfair that humanity should be engaged perpetually in calling all those things bad which have been good enough to make other things better, in everlastingly kicking down the ladder by which it has climbed. It has appeared to me that progress should be something else besides a continual parricide; therefore I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.”

“In all ages, through all the varied experience of individuals and nations, knowledge has been the power which has civilized, elevated and dignified humanity. In those countries where progress has been most rapid, the thirst for knowledge has been most intense.”

Has Beens Country Age Humanity Individual Nations Knowledge Progress Intense Civilized Thirst Rapids Thirst For Knowledge

Book:The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimké

Source: The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimké

“In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.”

“... it seems to have been my luck to stumble into various forms of progress, to which I have been of the smallest possible use; yet for whose sake I have suffered the discomfort attending all action in moral improvements, without the happiness of knowing that this was clearly quite worth while.”

Has Beens Use Seems Action Form Moral Knowing Progress Luck Sake Various Improvement Smallest Discomfort Attending

Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

“Futurologists have been multiplying like flies since the day Herman Kahn made Cassandra's profession "scientific," yet somehow not one of them has come out with the clear statement that we have wholly abandoned ourselves to the mercy of technological progress. The roles are now reversed: humanity becomes, for technology, a means, an instrument for achieving a goal unknown and unknowable.”

Mean Has Beens Made Humanity Goal Roles Technology Clear Progress Achieve Mercy Instruments Profession Statements Abandoned Technological Multiplying Technological Progress

Author:Stanislaw Lem

“Woman has so long been subject to the disabilities and restrictions with which her progress has been embarrassed that she has become enervated, her mind to some extent paralyzed; and like those still more degraded by personal bondage she hugs her chains.”

Mind Long Has Beens Stills Progress Subjects Chains Disability Hug Embarrassed Bondage Restriction Paralyzed

Author:Lucretia Mott

“More material progress has been made during the past one hundred and fifty years under the American system of business enterprise than during all the preceding centuries in world history. This record of achievement is a challenge to those who would radically change that system.”

World Years Has Beens Made America Past Challenges Records Progress Century Materials Achievement Hundred Fifty Enterprise World History

Author:Karl Taylor Compton

“It is this ideal of progress through cumulative effort rather than through genius—progress by organised effort, progress which does not wait for some brilliant stroke, some lucky discovery, or the advent of some superman, has been the chief gift of science to social philosophy.”

Doe Has Beens Philosophy Social Waiting Effort Progress Genius Lucky Discovery Ideals Organization Brilliant Chiefs Strokes Advent Organised Cumulative

Author:William Wickenden

“Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.”

World Has Beens Spiritual Progress Conditions Flesh Spiritualism Mortification Spiritual Progress

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“I am not sure that there has been a "lack of progress." On the contrary, the concept of feminism is not only well established but is now also attracting interest from young women, including teenagers and pre-teens. But a new interest is also symptomatic of the failure of the feminist project and the need for its renewal.”

Needs Wells Has Beens Young Interest Progress Feminism Projects Concepts Including Feminist Contrary Teenager Not Sure Teens Young Women Renewal

Author:Laura Mulvey

“I'm a Spinozist. I believe in reason. I think all the progress that we've made making this a better world have been because of reason and not religion. I think religion has been pulled along by reason and that's why we read The Bible now so differently, even believers.”

Thinking World Believe Has Beens Made Reason I Believe Progress I Believe In Believer

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress”

Has Beens Economy Records Progress Railroads

Book:The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

Source: The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

“Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.”

Men Kind Has Beens Philosophy Progress Authority Reverence Consent Antiquity Enchantment Progress In Science

Author:Francis Bacon

“Only a small part of scientific progress has resulted from planned search for specific objectives. A much more important part has been made possible by the freedom of the individual to follow his own curiosity.”

Has Beens Made Important Individual Progress Curiosity Objectives Small Parts Scientific Progress

Author:Irving Langmuir

“Progress has been much more general than retrogression”

Has Beens Progress

Book:The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

Source: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

“A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.”

Knows Littles Persons Has Beens Answers Walks Opinion Progress Possibility Argument Rational Certainty Discussion Unlikely

Book:I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic

Source: I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic

“Some people don't want to know that very little progress has been made. It is in the same way that companies are selling their products (i.e. the billion dollar cosmetic industry), they can package the message of femininity and normalization around this disease.”

People Knows Way Want Littles Has Beens Made Company Progress Products Industry Disease Messages Dollars Billions Selling Made It Femininity Packages Cosmetics

Author:Ravida Din

“The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.”

Has Beens Whole Interest Virtue Progress Draws Progression Compounds Compound Interest

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

“Every Christian church has tried to impose a code of morals of some kind for which it has claimed divine sanction. As these codes have always been opposed to those of the gospels a loophole has been left for moral progress such as hardly exists in other religions.”

Kind Has Beens Christian Left Church Moral Progress Divine Code Sanctions Christian Church Loopholes

Author:John B. S. Haldane

“There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.”

Has Beens Progress Lifetime Headings Wrong Direction

Author:Ogden Nash

“The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.”

Humans Has Beens Realizing Race Progress Revolution Human Race Rebellious Brutality

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Over the four years we have made massive progress: winning the League Championship (97/98); building the largest club stadium in the UK (60,000 seats); having the largest support (52,000 season book holders) of any club in Britain. This has been achieved by everyone who cares about Celtic working together towards a shared vision of football success and pride in a club which is part of our culture, open to all and a responsible member of the community working to help others where it can.”

“Satan does not have a body, and his eternal progress has been halted. Just as water flowing in a riverbed is stopped by a dam, so the adversary's eternal progress is thwarted because he does not have a physical body.”

Doe Has Beens Body Water Progress Eternal Satan Adversaries Physical Body Dams

Author:David A. Bednar

“Well, I would say that we've got to redefine democracy, that we have been stuck in concepts of representative democracy, that we believe that it's getting other people to do things for us that we progress.”

People Believe Wells Has Beens Democracy Progress Concepts Stuck Representatives

Author:Grace Lee Boggs

“The people of Iran have been battling against consecutive conflicts between tradition and modernity for over 100 years... some have tried and are trying to see the world through the eyes of their predecessors and to deal with the problems and difficulties of the existing world by virtue of the values of the ancients... many others...seek to go forth in step with world developments and not lag behind the caravan of civilization, development and progress.”

“Liberals believe and inexhaustible fund exists that can be tapped endlessly to pay for government social programs. Tax the rich and give it to a long line of moochers, pork barrel hustlers and ne'er-do-wells. These funds would otherwise have been employed as additional capital indispensable to economic progress.”

“I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women in the US could not apply for credit card without their husband's signature to a time where women are the owners of their businesses.”

Believe Has Beens I Believe Progress Husband Moved Gender Credit Cards Inequality Addresses Owners Credit Card Signatures Gender Inequality

Author:Zainab Salbi

“Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.”

World Has Beens Poverty Progress Materials Thirds West Contact Agents Principal Third World

Author:Peter Thomas Bauer

“For the last 250 years or so, secularists have waited patiently for the fulfilment of their prediction that religion would die out in the next generation or two. But religious people have been singularly uncooperative, and new strategies have developed for controlling this blight on human progress. If religion won't "wither away" as philosopher Richard Rorty has wished, then perhaps it can be privatized and thereby removed from influence on public life‚ - sort of like localizing an outbreak of the plague.”

“Ever since I assumed my present office my main purpose has been to work for the pacification of Europe, for the removal of those suspicions and those animosities which have so long poisoned the air. The path which leads to appeasement is long and bristles with obstacles. The question of Czechoslovakia is the latest and perhaps the most dangerous. Now that we have got past it, I feel that it may be possible to make further progress along the road to sanity.”

Feels May Long Has Beens Past Purpose Path Progress Air Dangerous Office Europe Obstacles Sanity Suspicion Removal Animosity Appeasement Czechoslovakia

Author:Neville Chamberlain

“There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them.”

Years Has Beens Known Progress Quantity Reducing Psychedelic Ecstatic Psychedelic Experience

Author:Terence McKenna

“The biggest lesson has been the importance of constantly repeating the mission. It means bringing the team together every week to talk about all of our projects, progress, and vision.”

Mean Has Beens Together Vision Progress Week Team Lessons Projects Importance Missions

Author:David Karp

“We utilize energy from carbon, not because we are bad people, but because it is the affordable foundation on which the profound improvements in our standard of living have been achieved - our progress in health and welfare.”

People Has Beens Energy Progress Standards Foundation Profound Improvement Welfare Carbon Bad People Affordable Standards Of Living

Author:John Christy

“We want to be special. We want our place in the cosmos to be central. We want evolution-even godless evolution-to have been directed toward us so that we stand at the pinnacle of nature's ladder of progress. Rewind the tape of life and we want to believe that we (Homo Sapiens) would appear again and again. Would we? Probably not.”

Want Believe Has Beens Progress Special Evolution Cosmos Tape Again And Again Ladders Homo Sapiens Pinnacle Rewind

Author:Michael Shermer

“Leg locomotion was, for decades, thought to be an incredibly difficult problem. There has been very, very painstakingly slow progress there, and robots that essentially lumbered along at one step every 15 seconds and occasionally fell over.”

Has Beens Problem Difficult Steps Progress Legs Decades Seconds Robots Difficult Problems Slow Progress

Author:Stuart J. Russell

“I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities and people moving from one part of the world to another. It seems difficult to take an anti-globalization view if one takes globalization properly in its full sense.”

People Ifs Thinking World Has Beens Two Ideas Whole Seems Lasts Moving Three Difficult Views Progress Technique Dependent Commodity Globalization

Author:Amartya Sen

“At the individual level, if we can identify the psychological mechanisms linking adverse environments to psychosis (and there has been a lot of progress with this despite minimal funding) we should be able to devise more effective interventions for those who are already ill.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Able Individual Levels Environment Progress Ill Psychological Despite Mechanism Intervention Funding Adverse Psychosis

Author:Richard Bentall

“I don't know of any neuropsychiatric disorder other than an infection that has been cured. But the goal is to improve the quality of life of people who experience autistic symptomology and I just think we will make progress on that.”

People Thinking Knows Has Beens Goal Quality Progress Disorder Quality Of Life Autistic Infection

Author:Gerald Fischbach

“Even a wild horse can be tamed; even metal that is difficult to work eventually goes into a mold. If you take it easy and do not stir yourself, you will never make any progress. It has been said, "It is no disgrace to have many afflictions: I would worry if there never were any afflictions."”

Ifs Has Beens Said Easy Difficult Worry Progress Horse Taoism Metals Affliction Disgrace Mold Tamed Take It Easy Wild Horses

Author:Zicheng Hong

“My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.”

Kind Has Beens Film Certain Progress Elements Minimalism

Author:Abbas Kiarostami

“One of the problems and the reason why Carolyn [Maloney ] wrote the book, the Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated is that some people think we have made it when we have not and there's much to be done.”

People Thinking Has Beens Made Book Reason Done Problem Progress Made It Reason Why Rumor Exaggerated

Author:Eleanor Smeal

“That great political idea, sanctifying freedom and consecrating it to God, teaching men to treasure the liberties of others as their own and to defend them for the love of justice and charity more than as a claim of right, has been the soul of what is great and good in the progress of the last two hundred years.”

Men Years Has Beens Two Ideas Soul Lasts Political Justice Liberty Progress Teaching Hundred Claims Charity Treasure Great Political

Book:The History of Freedom: Great Event

Source: The History of Freedom: Great Event

“Afghanistan has other enormous challenges as well, including a political system that is still very much developing, although there has been some progress in the past several years.”

Years Wells Has Beens Stills Past Political Challenges Progress Including Enormous Developing Afghanistan Political Systems

Author:David Petraeus

“The United States says "We're complying. We're following the disarmament obligation. Look at the quantitative reductions that are taking place." But, since '96, there really hasn't been progress on specific commitments that have been made. Perhaps most disturbing is this: that the United States and France in particular, since 1996, have expanded the range of circumstances under which they might use - they say they might use - nuclear weapons.”

“You have a lot of unfinished business, but obviously every president who leaves, particularly after two terms, can point to many different areas where there has been progress and there has been change.”

Has Beens Two Different President Term Progress Areas Unfinished Unfinished Business

Author:Kellyanne Conway

“There has been a religious revival because - let me put it like this, the people that weren't traditionally religious, conventionally religious, had a religion of their own in my youth. These were liberals who believed in the idea of progress or they were Marxists. Both of these secular religions have broken down.”

People Has Beens Ideas Religious Progress Youth Broken Let Me Secular Revival Marxist Broken Down

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.”

People Has Beens Ideas Age Progress Nuclear Historic Marxism Stalinism

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“Take the US. Women were not even able to vote until 90 ago, at about the same time they gained the right in Afghanistan. Rights of former slaves were very limited until the 1960s, and in some ways still are. In these and other domains there has been progress in democracy, though still seriously flawed. In other dimensions - the control of concentrated wealth over the political process, for example, things have gotten much worse in recent years. And there is much more, in both directions.”

Way Years Has Beens Stills Able Political Process Wealth Democracy Rights Progress Example Vote Slave Former Dimensions Afghanistan Domain Flawed 1960s

Author:Noam Chomsky

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