“If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.” IfsMenBelieveHumansWellsMayDoneProgressConditionsRevolutionTraditionHuman Condition Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
“In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues.” HumansProgressTraditionAffairAvailableRoutineStatic Author:Joseph Jastrow
“Generally speaking, an Indian university must regard itself as one of the living organs of national reconstruction. It must discover the best means of blending together both the spiritual and the material aspects of life. It must equip its alumni irrespective of caste, creed or sex, with individual fitness, not for its own sake, not for merely adorning varied occupations and professions, but in order to teach them how to merge their individuality in the common cause of advancing the progress and prosperity of their motherland and upholding the highest traditions of human civilisation.” HumansMeanTogetherSpiritualOrderIndividualSexCausesCommonTeachProgressMaterialsHighestAspectTraditionRegardUniversitySakeIndividualityProsperityProfessionIndianOccupationOrgansCreedsCivilisationAdvancingReconstructionCastesAspects Of LifeMotherlandAlumni Author:Syama Prasad Mukherjee
“The rationale for accepting or rejecting any theory is thus fundamentally based on the idea of problem-solving progress. If one research tradition has solved more important problems than its rivals, then accepting that tradition is rational precisely to the degree that we are aiming to "progress," i.e., to maximize the scope f solved problems. In other words, the choice of one tradition over its rivals is a progressive (and thus a rational) choice precisely to the extent that the chosen tradition is a better problem solver than its rivals.” IfsImportantIdeasProblemScienceChoicesAcceptingProgressTheoryDegreesResearchTraditionChosenRationalOver ItProgressiveProblem SolvingRationalityScopeRivalsRejectingRationaleProblem SolversSolved Problems Book:Progress and Its Problems: Towards a Theory of Scientific Growth Source: Progress and Its Problems: Towards a Theory of Scientific Growth
“The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of a high standard of excellence, inculcated by the ablest and best men, embodied in the laws, customs and traditions of the nation, and enforced by public opinion.” MenSeemsLawNationsCausesBrainOpinionProgressYouthStandardsTraditionExcellenceCustomsEfficientPublic OpinionHigh StandardsGood EducationCustoms And Traditions Book:The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics) Source: The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)
“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.” PeopleWorldYearsHas BeensProblemEyeValuesDealsBehindsStepsVirtueProgressDevelopmentCivilizationConflictTraditionDifficultyIranModernityPredecessorsThrough The EyesLagCaravansConsecutive Author:Shirin Ebadi
“Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.” ProgressTraditionNecksAlbatross Author:Bill Veeck
“The gay rights movement of recent years has been an inspiring victory for humanity and it is in the tradition of the civil rights movement when I was a young boy in the South, the women's suffrage movement when my mother was a young woman in Tennessee, the abolition movement much farther back, and the anti-apartheid movement when I was in the House of Representatives. All of these movements have one thing in common: the opposition to progress was rooted in an outdated understanding of morality.” MotherHumanityHouseUnderstandingCommonBoysProgressVictoryMoralityGayTraditionCivil RightsYoung WomenCivil Rights MovementGay RightsAbolitionSuffrage Author:Al Gore
“The Soviets held to the tradition of colonialism. They raped the country and killed many people. But they also built dams, electrical power plants, streets, and technical schools. They were communists and had the same vision for Afghanistan that Stalin and Lenin had for the Soviet Union: Progress is communism plus electrification. And today? Today Kabul gets its electrical power from Uzbekistan, Herat from Iran and Jalalabad from Pakistan.” PeopleCountryTodaySchoolVisionProgressTraditionPlantCommunismCommunistAfghanistanSovietSoviet UnionElectrical Author:Ahmed Rashid
“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.” HumansHeartIdeasProgressCapitalismTraditionSacredSentimentsHuman HeartExploitsOld Traditions Author:Daniel De Leon