“If you have methods without principles, you're going to have trouble. But if you develop methods based on principles, then you can make progress.” IfsPrinciplesProgressTroubleMethod Author:Charles Koch
“If we want to make progress in key areas now, we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies. So not only the politicians but also business, the wider civil society, and the trade union movement all have a contribution to make, whether it is at national or at international level.” IfsWantEnergyProcessLevelsProgressMovementKeysPoliticianAreasTradeUnionsInternationalContributionAppropriateCivil SocietyTrade UnionsStakeholder Author:Mary Robinson
“Every time you have an opportunity of opening a school, its fee and funding is really relatively small in comparison with the big expenditure, which is basically quote unquote defense. I think if there were fees, progress could be very much faster. But for that we need not only the government in different countries to understand it but the society to put pressure on it, the parents to understand that their desire to have their children educated can actually be realized, and it could make a dramatic difference.” IfsThinkingNeedsChildrenDifferentCountryBigsGovernmentSchoolDesireOpportunityParentDifferencesProgressPressureDefenseOpeningEducatedFasterDramaticComparisonFundingFeesExpendituresDifferent Countries Author:Amartya Sen
“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.” IfsShouldHumansRealProgressOrganismsDomainScientific Progress Author:Noam Chomsky
“Think of US slavery in 1850, or the subjection of women. Both of these injustices could have been - and were! - defended by pointing out, quite correctly, that this situation of slaves and women had been improving throughout the preceding century. Slaves, in particular, were worked less hard, beaten and raped less frequently, better fed, and less often ripped apart from their families. So would a celebration of moral progress have been appropriate in 1850? Surely not. Slavery could have been and should have been abolished - then, if not before.” IfsThinkingShouldHas BeensHardSituationMoralProgressCenturyParticularShould HaveSlaverySlaveInjusticeAppropriateFedsCelebrationBeatenImprovingPointingCould Have BeenShould Have BeenRippedSubjection Author:Thomas Pogge
“I am happy to accept that badge of ambivalence if that means some progress in dismantling this false opposition: writers boldly using their privileges of free speech in the morally superior West versus pathetic wimps in repressive countries we don't like.” IfsMeanCountryAcceptingProgressSpeechWestPrivilegeSuperiorsOppositionFree SpeechVersusPatheticBadgesAmbivalenceWimps Author:Pankaj Mishra
“Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?” IfsUseProgressLuckForksCannibal Author:Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
“We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.” IfsMenWantMeanMotivationalTurnsLibertyCasesProgressEvolutionWalkingMereLive LifeProgressiveWork In ProgressRight RoadProgress In LifeWrong RoadTurns In The Road Author:C. S. Lewis
“It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.” IfsMenWorldProgressLonelinessLonelyEvery ManBeing AloneBeing LonelyLoneliness And SolitudeI Am LonelyLonely And AloneAlone LonelyLike Being AloneLonely ManLonely World Author:Bruce Barton
“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.” IfsGivingHumansCountryPoliticalWishSocialStruggleProgressArchitectureSocial ProgressPolitical Struggle Author:Oscar Niemeyer