Progress Quotes

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There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less government, and maintain… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis. — Norman O. Brown
Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history - the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of heathens, and… — Savitri Devi
Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings… — H. L. Mencken
If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress,… — Benjamin Disraeli
If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east… — Henry David Thoreau
The walking of Man is falling forwards. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others. — Jean de la Bruyere
We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended. — Charles Lindbergh
Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress. — Mac Thornberry
New York, which is founded on forward motion and thus loath to acknowledge its dead, merely causes them to walk, endlessly unsatisfied and unburied, to… — Luc Sante
God leads us step by step, from event to event. Only afterward, as we look back over the way we have come and reconsider certain… — Paul Tournier
Risk is an essential part of progress. — Robert G. Allen
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the… — Mahatma Gandhi

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