Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The most serious charge that can be brought against modern benevolence is that it encourages the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents and dependents.… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
The Global Poverty Project's mission is to stand up for the world's poorest people. We fight for the full funding of Millennium… — Hugh Evans Copy Share Image
If you have technological progress, that will encourage more capitalist system. On the other hand, if you don't, if things are stalled,… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I feel my child is being deprived of anything that could affect her progress as a person, then I become extremely… — Jeremy Sisto Copy Share Image
The IP standards advanced countries favour typically are designed not to maximise innovation and scientific progress, but to maximise the profits of… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
In the post-9/11 world you cannot give him the benefit of the doubt. As a result of our going into Iraq, not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We will have to stand up for and promote the power and promise of free markets and free peoples, and affirm that… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
Tiny gold sparks flared in his irises. "You're in my rooms in my bathtub naked and you're still mouthing off." Did he… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I was full of pride when President Obama talked about coding in his last State of the Union address. I was proud… — Reshma Saujani Copy Share Image
Continued public and private sector partnership with multilateral and bilateral organizations to support policies that encourage the proliferation of broadband access is… — Tae Yoo Copy Share Image
The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whether it's in in livability, transportation, or the environment, Portland is always leading the country. We have more to do before we… — Earl Blumenauer Copy Share Image
The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I don't know of any neuropsychiatric disorder other than an infection that has been cured. But the goal is to improve the… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each… — Hugh Everett III Copy Share Image
It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
True friends don't hold us back spiritually or pull us down when we're trying to rise and progress. True friends protect us.… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
One pattern to help yourself fight the mad dash for the mirage of being done is to think of a good day’s… — David Heinemeier Hansson Copy Share Image
Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said. ‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
If you don't invest in the woman, empower her, give her the things she needs to lift her family up, you're just… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
In Australia we have a government actively undoing what little progress had been made on climate change and stripping money from all… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
“Civilization was like a mad dash that lasted fie thousand years. Progress begot more progress; countless miracles gave birth to more miracles;… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
Don't put off joy and happiness. Strive to live each day to its fullest, squeezing all the joy you can out of… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
It's annoying to be on the bench - it's truly annoying - but it's a test you have to overcome, and that's… — Anthony Martial Copy Share Image
I went to work one morning, and outside my door was Cindy Crawford in a black bra, and I thought that very… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Even though it's still, annoyingly, something everybody feels the need to bring up to anybody who doesn't look like a model, there… — Melanie Lynskey Copy Share Image
At the individual level, if we can identify the psychological mechanisms linking adverse environments to psychosis (and there has been a lot… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
