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“I would say the first key concept is that, in terms of technological and communication progress in human history, the Internet is basically the equivalent of electronic telepathy. We can now communicate all the time through our little magic smartphones with people who are anywhere, all the time, constantly learning what they're thinking, talking about, exchanging messages. And this is a new capability even within the context of the Internet.”

“In The Ecology of Freedom, my critique of what is called civilization and industrial society is massive, and my attack upon [Karl] Marx's commitment to it as a necessary stage in human progress and the domination of nature is very sharp.”

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Author:Murray Bookchin

“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961

“Greed in human nature may now come near to enslaving all humanity by means of the Machine - so fast and far has progress gone with it. This will be evident to anyone who stops to study the modern mechanistic Moloch and takes time to view it in its larger aspects.”

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Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“There are huge areas where the human mind is apparently incapable of forming sciences, or at least has not done so. There are other areas - so far, in fact, one area only [physics] - in which we have demonstrated the capacity for true scientific progress.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“The very properties of the human mind that provide an enormous scope for human genius in some domains will serve as barriers to progress in other domains, just as the properties that enable each child to acquire a complex and highly articulated human language block the acquisition of other imaginable linguistic systems.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“If humans are organisms like every other organism - which they are - then we should expect that if there are some domains where real scientific progress is possible, then there are others where it is not.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”

Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

“Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.”

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Author:Jaron Lanier

“Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.”

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Author:Daniel De Leon

“The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.”

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Author:Don Marquis

“Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.”

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Author:Wynton Marsalis

“Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.”

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Author:Mary Matalin

“Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.”

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Author:Bryant H. McGill

“These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.”

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Author:Anthony de Mello

“Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.”

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Author:Oscar Niemeyer