Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
~By Russell Baker ~
Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.
~By Earl Browder ~
Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.
~By Frank Pittman ~
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
~By Charles Kettering ~
I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision.
~By Danny Glover ~
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all.
~By Jim Gerlach ~
I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.
~By Debbie Meyer ~
However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.
~By Tran Duc Luong ~
I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians and with the new members of the European Union, we must make an effort to forge closer links.
~By Jean-Pierre Raffarin ~
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
~By Frank Herbert ~
Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.
~By Bruno Bauer ~
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
~By Charles Darwin ~
Without deviation progress is not possible.
~By Frank Zappa ~
In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.
~By Bruno Rossi ~
The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
~By Joseph McCabe ~
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature.
~By Richard Owen ~
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
~By Stephen Covey ~
Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.
~By William Banting ~
Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
~By Adam Clarke ~
Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.
~By Thierry Henry ~
I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.
~By Ernest Lawrence ~
In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.
~By Alexander Hamilton ~
The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist.
~By Danny Glover ~
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
~By James Freeman Clarke ~
We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.
~By Mary A. Ward ~
The Democratic Party is on the move across the country. Voters are responding to our message of progress and fiscal responsibility.
~By Joe Andrew ~
Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we bad to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress.
~By Leonard Woodcock ~
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
~By Nadine Gordimer ~
I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development.
~By Li Peng ~
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 the flow of social progress.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.
~By Daniel De Leon ~
The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.
~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.
~By Brandi Chastain ~
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
~By James Thurber ~
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
~By Barack Obama ~
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.
~By Georg Simmel ~
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
~By Henry Ellis ~
In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments.
~By Wilhelm Wundt ~
The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.
~By Sellapan Ramanathan ~
In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
~By Carl Jung ~
Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.
~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
~By Emma Goldman ~
I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.
~By Poppy Z. Brite ~
It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.
~By Wen Ho Lee ~
If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.
~By Donny Osmond ~
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 continual social progress.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.
~By Eisaku Sato ~
In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.
~By Victor Francis Hess ~
It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.
~By Robert Welch ~
Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
~By Page McConnell ~
I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future.
~By Howard Baker ~
If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.
~By Charles E. Wilson ~
In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.
~By Luther Burbank ~
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
~By Karl Marx ~
Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.
~By Mary Douglas ~
I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with.
~By Sonny Rollins ~
And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.
~By Fred Frith ~
Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
~By Ulysses S. Grant ~
I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming.
~By Peter Camejo ~
The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.
~By Leon Kass ~
I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.
~By Henry Knox ~
Well, the important message that we've always carried to China is that we look forward to your progress and prosperity, we look forward to you playing a role in the progress and prosperity of this region and we look forward to stability in your relations with others.
~By Sellapan Ramanathan ~
My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.
~By William Bartram ~
There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.
~By Jim Hightower ~
The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this.
~By David Axelrod ~
Business can be a source of progressive change.
~By Jerry Greenfield ~
Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing us all the supplies we need on the Progress vehicle, smaller amounts on the Soyuz vehicles.
~By John L. Phillips ~
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling.
~By David Strathairn ~
In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.
~By Alan Autry ~
I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress.
~By John Templeton ~
The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
~By Ralph A. Cram ~
I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us.
~By Helen Dunmore ~
The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.
~By Sherrod Brown ~
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
You've gotta find a way to get out of your own way, so you can progress in life.
~By Steve Carlton ~
Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
~By Harold Washington ~
As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.
~By Earl Blumenauer ~
The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
~By Jacques Yves Cousteau ~
To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress.
~By Allen Toussaint ~
The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.
~By James Cash Penney ~
Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science.
~By Ernest Lawrence ~
Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
~By Epictetus ~
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
~By Thomas Paine ~
Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.
~By Henry George ~
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