Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none. — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“Patriotism is about a desire for progress, not a yearning for repetition.” — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
America's greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress. — John McCain Copy Share Image
You've gotta find a way to get out of your own way, so you can progress in life. — Steve Carlton Copy Share Image
But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“Vacate the bench of rest and play the game of the bests. Keep on marching; no more benching!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
Some Republicans support gay rights, but prefer progress through legislative action or majority rule at the ballot box, rather than judicial action. — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Consider all of the possibilities for positive global progress if we utilized nonviolence as the central value of our culture, encompassing our… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
How do we slow down what matters the most and speed up what benefits change and progress? We don't want to impede… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Unlike Hegel's progress model of history, which moves by stages, each containing its own logic of growth and decline, the economic model… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
“In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find… — William McKinley Copy Share Image
The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
That great political idea, sanctifying freedom and consecrating it to God, teaching men to treasure the liberties of others as their own… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best tribal, but… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible, by faith in the omnipotence, fidelity, and wisdom of the… — Charles Studd Copy Share Image
Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But if it be true, as every prospect assures us, that the human race shall not again relapse into its ancient barbarity;… — Nicolas de Condorcet Copy Share Image
[Buckminster] Fuller's idea of progress is a very 1950s organization man out of the military sort of idea of progress. So as… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
There might be greater technology but really, we as human beings, we're the same as we ever were. There's always a ruling… — David W. Marsden Copy Share Image
Michael Vick is a work in progress. I think he really is wanting to do the right thing. I think the Philadelphia… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
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