Character Quote by Clement Attlee

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

— Madame de Stael

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is…

— Charlie Chaplin

There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

— Victor Hugo

The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and…

— Vance Havner

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

— Gerald R. Ford

“But America, as I look at you from afar, I wonder whether your moral and spiritual progress has been commensurate with your scientific progress.…

— Clayborne Carson

“Material means that hide man's meanness fail to reflect his moral richness.”

— B.S. Murthy

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

— Nikita Khrushchev

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

— Frederick the Great

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

— Hannah Arendt

Of all the discoveries which men need to make, the most important, at the present moment, is that of the self-forming power treasured up…

— William Ellery Channing