Human Progress Quotes

77 quotes by 64 authors

As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure… — Leon Trotsky
The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and… — David Simon
All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force. — Maria Montessori
If human progress had been merely a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia today. — Thomas Reed
Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress — Wilferd Peterson
Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human progress are dark… — Winston Churchill
Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular authority has led… — Fred Edwords
Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration. — H. L. Mencken
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and… — Kofi Annan
Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential. — Kofi Annan
Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one… — Judith Stone
Modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view of life on which both systems are based is identical. As long as we… — Julius Evola
Nobody has the right to shield any idea as so sacred it canâ€™t be challenged. ... Almost all human progress is driven by people who… — Glenn Greenwald
According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress. — Swami Vivekananda
Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress, — Hillary Clinton
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . . — Martin Luther King, Jr.
To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed… — Charlie Chaplin
It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment of mankind. It… — Maria Montessori
Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries.… — John Harvey Kellogg
Procrastination is a deadly weapon of human progress. — Marvin J. Ashton

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