Progress Quotes

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No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for… — Emma Goldman
His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few. — Terry Pratchett
Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread â€“ these are two lows of… — Yann Martel
I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it… — Mahatma Gandhi
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for… — George Santayana
The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society… — George Bernard Shaw
It took a qualified wizard to detect a summoning in progress. It required only a half-literate idiot with a twitch of power and a dim… — Ilona Andrews
When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence. — John O'Donohue
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what.… — Mark Victor Hansen
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of… — Thomas Jefferson
He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions — Victor Hugo
If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow. — Victor Hugo
It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to… — John Stuart Mill
As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that… — Gustavo Adolfo BÃ©cquer
One thing we know for sure is that change is certain. Progress is not. Progress depends on the choices we make today for tomorrow and… — Hillary Clinton
You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No… — Malcolm X
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim… — Emma Goldman
Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules â€” and still there are some misfits… — Kurt Vonnegut
Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. — Eugene V. Debs

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