Social Progress Quotes
38 quotes by 35 authors
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For the world to become a better place, someone has to pay a price, I think it's glorious to sacrifice for the sake of social…
— Xu Zhiyong
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Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
— George Henry Lewes
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Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease…
— Sun Yat-sen
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Space travel leading to skylife is vital to human survival, because the question is not whether we will be hit by an asteroid, but when.…
— Gregory Benford
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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
— Barbra Streisand
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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your living in this…
— Jaron Lanier
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My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of…
— Wynton Marsalis
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Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the…
— Oscar Niemeyer
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
— Earl Warren
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We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die.…
— H.G. Wells
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Stand tall and be strong in defense of those great virtues which have been the backbone of our social progress. When you are united, your…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
— Charles Fourier
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It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the…
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Christians and non-Christian voters alike have become far too comfortable slinging rocks at the expense of making any real political or social progress.
— Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
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My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He was…
— Wynton Marsalis
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Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made…
— Lester B. Pearson
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Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.
— Earl Warren
Who Wrote These Social Progress Quotes
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