“On a personal side, I found Bo Burlingham's Small Giants to be a great window into how business can be an extension of social change and the critical role the entrepreneur plays in creating progress in society.” PlayFoundSocialSidesRolesProgressCreatingWindowEntrepreneurCriticalGiantsExtensionsSocial Change Author:Lewis Schiff
“Real social progress is always a widening of the circle of concern and protection. It's respect and empathy overtaking blindness and indifference. It's understanding that by the true measure, we are all neighbors and countrymen, call to each one of us to know what is right and kind and just and to go and do likewise.” KnowsKindRealSocialUnderstandingProgressEmpathyConcernProtectionNeighborCirclesIndifferenceBlindnessCountrymenSocial ProgressOvertaking Author:Paul Ryan
“In 1949, I believed that social progress, the triumph of the proletariat, socialism would lead to the emancipation of women. But I saw that nothing came of it: first of all, that socialism was not achieved anywhere, and that in certain countries which called themselves socialist, the situation of women was no better than it was in so-called capitalist countries.” FirstsCountryCertainSocialSituationSawsProgressSocialismTriumphCapitalistSocialistEmancipationProletariatSocial Progress Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“It is undeniable that the French were in a better situation in 1960s then than they are today in 2017. I don't look in the rearview mirror. But there was no need for us to experience an end to social progress since then.” NeedsLooksEndsTodaySocialSituationProgressMirrors1960sSocial ProgressRearview Mirror Author:Marine Le Pen
“Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.” LawPurposeOrderSocialJusticeProgressFailingFlowLawyerBlockLaw And OrderSocial ProgressDams Book:Why We Can't Wait Source: Why We Can't Wait
“Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, "Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living." We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have.” WayGivingSocialProgressAdviceMusicianSellsShirtsReverseT ShirtSocial Progress Author:Jaron Lanier
“Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.” UseSocialProgressFailingMovementWeakInstrumentsIrrelevantSymptomsSocial MovementsStatesmanship Book:A Preface to Politics Source: A Preface to Politics
“My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.” WorldAmericaSocialProgressGenerationsBrotherExpectedMy BrotherBetter PlaceDaddyOur GenerationSocial Progress Author:Wynton Marsalis
“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