Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
Rosa LuxemburgTags: progress freedom history struggle liberation evolution
Roosevelt spoke eloquently, in his penetrating tenor, of those 'who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life . . . I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished,' he told the audience, '. . . The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
Susan QuinnTags: progress government depression inauguration roosevelt wpa
We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.
Alan MooreTags: progress
[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together.
Julian BarnesTags: science future progress technology
Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
F.W. DupeeTags: progress perseverance
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
Nikola TeslaTags: science progress invention non-physical-phenomena
But to unite in a permanent religious institution which is not to be subject to doubt before the public even in the lifetime of one man, and thereby to make a period of time fruitless in the progress of mankind toward improvement, thus working to the disadvantage of posterity - that is absolutely forbidden. For himself (and only for a short time) a man may postpone enlightenment in what he ought to know, but to renounce it for posterity is to injure and trample on the rights of mankind.
Immanuel KantTags: doubt progress enlightenment rights disadvantage posterity improvement forbidden fruitless injure religious-institution
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
Auguste ComteTags: principle progress love goal order foundation positivism
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
Mahatma GandhiTags: honesty progress differences healthy
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Ernest RenanTags: progress archimedes
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