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  • Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human progress are dark ....If .... it is found possible to build a world organization of irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of securing peace, there are no limits to the blessings which all men enjoy and share.

    War   Dark   Blessing  
  • Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every valuable thing that has been added to the store of man's possessions has been derided by them when it was new, and destroyed by them when they had the power. They have fought every new truth ever heard of, and they have killed every truth-seeker who got into their hands.

    Men   Hands   Progress  
    "Homo Neanderthalensis Baltimore Sun". "The Impossible Mencken" by H. L. Mencken, June 29, 1925.
  • Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said. ‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.

  • Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that which we may act upon without fear; and you cannot fail to see that scientific thought is not an accompaniment or condition of human progress, but human progress itself.

    Truth   Science   Errors  
    William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.157, Cambridge University Press
  • History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

    Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Sept. 1964-May 1949”
  • Do not stand in the way of the next step in human progress. No one living who reads the signs of the times but realizes that woman suffrage must come. We are working for the ballot as a matter of justice and as a step for human betterment.

  • In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

    Technology   Years   Long  
  • Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths

    Men   Progress   Liberty  
    Will Durant (2014). “Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God”, p.75, Simon and Schuster
  • As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been no technical development or social culture.

    Animal   Reality   Men  
    "Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism): a reply to Karl Kantsky".
  • Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

    "Tony Blair At Colby College: ‘Are We An Empire That’s Fading?’" by Hunter Stuart, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2012.
  • Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.

    Two   Progress   Stem  
    Judith Stone (1991). “Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity”, Ballantine Books
  • I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.

    Race   Progress   Littles  
  • The brain is conceded to be the master organ of the body, the regulator of life, the source of human progress.

    Brain   Progress   Body  
  • The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.

    Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.9
  • I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to the point of eliminating, religious faiths. But certainly not eliminating the natural yearnings of our species or the asking of these great questions.

  • ...knowledge is the cause of human progress.

  • To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

    Men   Greed   Progress  
    "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.
  • Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular authority has led to democracy, human rights, and the protection of the environment. Humanists make no apologies for this. Humanists twist no biblical doctrine to justify such actions.

  • All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.

    Maria Montessori (2003). “The Montessori Method”, p.20, Barnes & Noble Publishing
  • Private property in the instruments of production is an institutional device both for dispersing power and for securing effective organization of production. The only simple property system is that of a slave society with a single slave owner - which, significantly, is the limiting case of despotism and of monopoly. Departure from such a system is a fair measure of human progress.

    Henry Calvert Simons (1948). “Economic Policy for a Free Society”
  • Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

    Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.107, Best Books on
  • War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.

    War   Two   Preparation  
  • There are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.

    Dream   Men   Growth  
    Second Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 1985, Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington D.C.
  • The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

    Ernest Renan (1893). “The Future of Science”
  • If we make ourselves worthy of America's ideals, if we do not forget that our nation was founded on the premise that all men are creatures of God's making, the world will come to know that it is free men who carry forward the true promise of human progress and dignity.

    Men   America   Promise  
    Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959”, p.18, Best Books on
  • One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed to Bolshevism, as much as to the Church of Rome.

    Believe   Rome   Progress  
    Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). “Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22”, p.197, Psychology Press
  • Procrastination is a deadly weapon of human progress.

  • We have embarked globally on a path of unsustainable development. Our lifestyles, the way we produce goods and services, are all part of a system that is completely unsustainable. I see solutions to climate change leading to a much larger philosophical shift in the way human society develops. We need a new matrix to define what human progress is.

    "Nobel peace prize winner: 'It's all about green energy'" by Rajendra K. Pachauri, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2009.
  • Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

    "Germany". Book by Madame de Stael, 1813.
  • 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.

    Idols   Skulls   Progress  
    "The Future Results of British Rule in India," New York Daily Tribune, August 8, 1853.
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