Social progress Quote by Margot Lee Shetterly

“War may be the most efficient stimulus of innovation and technological advance,”

— Jack L. Chalker

“Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of…

— Arnold Toynbee

“Exploration and invention were the two faces on the coin of progress, and progress was the spirit of the age”

— David von Drehle

“To attribute these two great developments to the Central Committee, is to take a very narrow view of civilization. The Central Committee announced the…

— E.M. Forster

“History is not nostalgic art, but history is ibrah, lessons, that we can pull to the present, to prepare for a better future,” -105”

— Ahmad Fuadi

“There was a more personal form of fragmentation that plagued postwar America, too—a sense that all the paper-pushing and file cabinets had divided workers…

— Franklin Foer

“Curious: At the very moment modern technology annuls all frontiers and distances (flying, wireless, television, economic interdependance), the most extreme nationalism is raging.”

— Victor Klemperer

“The trouble was, innovation never resulted in victory over the long term. It was too easy for the enemy to imitate and improve on…

— Orson Scott Card

“The appropriation of history, the historicization of the past, the narrativization of society, all of which give the novel its force, include the accumulation…

— Edward W. Said

“The history of social, political and technological change is inextricably bound to the history of thought.”

— Philip Stokes

“Progress is hard on history.”

— Justina Chen Headley

“what was once associated with deafening, dangerous, and stultifying work could now be admired as historic creations and greeted with reverential, if only quasi-informed,…

— Kay S. Hymowitz