Top 1200 Progress Of Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system.

Our society in general devalues the 'she' - qualities that are associated with the feminine that are found in all of us. As a result there's this imbalance and this distortion and it's hindering our progress.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.

If there has been any progress in the Chinese society and politics over the last 20 years, it is all because the citizens have been pushing for change.

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

On a personal side, I found Bo Burlingham's Small Giants to be a great window into how business can be an extension of social change and the critical role the entrepreneur plays in creating progress in society.

At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever

Sometimes making progress a step at a time is better than no progress at all.

Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.

Free enterprise capitalism has been the most powerful creative system of social cooperation and human progress ever conceived, but its perception and its role in society have been distorted.

As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and peace.

We need to figure out how to merge political progress with actual progress.

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Change is not always progress... A fever of newness has everywhere been confused with the spirit of progress.

If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why - unlike scientific progress - is it so invisible? Philosophical progress is invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. What was torturously secured by complex argument comes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance.

I wouldn't say that religion has promoted the social progress of mankind. I say that it has been a detriment to the progress of civilization, and I would also say this: that the emancipation of the mind from religious superstition is as essential to the progress of civilization as is emancipation from physical slavery.

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

There is no media freedom in China. As a result, the society is corrupt and lacks productivity. It is unable to adjust itself for progress. This will lead to the country's eventual downfall.

We live in a society where individual effort and progress is valued, and that's absolutely correct and is as it should be. But we also are interdependent creatures. We can't succeed solely on our own.

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.

Unless we can join forces and recognize each other's humanity, how can we do business together, let alone make progress on the increasingly complex and difficult problems in society?

Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.

The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.

There must be progress, certainly. But we must ask ourselves what kind of progress we want, and what price we want to pay for it. If, in the name of progress, we want to destroy everything beautiful in our world, and contaminate the air we breathe, and the water we drink, then we are in trouble.

A society that does not give importance to education cannot progress. Let there be any Government, it must have a vision to make India shine in the field of education.

Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.

In The Ecology of Freedom, my critique of what is called civilization and industrial society is massive, and my attack upon [Karl] Marx's commitment to it as a necessary stage in human progress and the domination of nature is very sharp.

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop.

The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of society better than the most elaborate dissertation.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.

In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed. The half-intelligibility which we expect, or even hope, to find in the latest product language personally reassures each of us that progress is being made: that the pace exceeds our ability to follow.

Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.

But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.

Progress! Progress through everybody dying and their kids eventually not caring who their parents hated!

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia... When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch... and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain.

We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

It is this ideal of progress through cumulative effort rather than through genius—progress by organised effort, progress which does not wait for some brilliant stroke, some lucky discovery, or the advent of some superman, has been the chief gift of science to social philosophy.

Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention.

As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is.

Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.

The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country - a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old - is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past.

An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory.

Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a sense of global responsibility.

Progress not perfection... you can't be perfect everything... but you can gain progress on a daily basis.