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Progress Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man…
- Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix, and God.
- The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got…
- Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.
- 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…
- Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every…
- We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small…
- All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped…
- Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress of humanity, far…
- Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
- Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right…
More Progress Quotes
- It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the… — Teresa of Avila
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida
- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
- The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. — Gaston Bachelard
- '3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason… — Christian Bale
- The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. — Henry Adams
- Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear;… — Bruce Barton
- It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s… — Bruce Barton
- Progress, this great heresy of decay. — Charles Baudelaire
- Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the… — Charles Baudelaire
- Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up… — Jean Baudrillard
- Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. — Jane Addams