1,930 Quotes About Progress

I do not care whether there is an almighty lord up there, all I care is that this is our world and if we don't take responsibility for it, then we better pack up our bags and head back home to the jungle.

One never moves forward repeating the same steps.

By the late 1840s, anticipation of a better life and the concept of 'progress' had become an American touchstone, a national expectation.

Tradition just battles, and progress wins.

Ease of going was translated without pause into a principled unwillingness to stop.

You simply cannot take pride in the imperialist atrocities of your ancestors and at the same time call yourself a civilized human.

Progress without assimilation is no progress, but regress in disguise.

Of all nations on the face of earth, My nation is the greatest. This is no behavior of the civilized, It's but a sign of the stupidest.

That Mrs. Munt should be the first to discover the misfortune was not remarkable, for she was so interested in the flats, that she watched their every mutation with unwearying care. In theory she despised them — they took away that old-world look — they cut off the sun — flats house a flashy type of person.