Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-32] of 32 Progress quotesProgress QuotesProgress Previous 20 quotes I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.~ C. S. Lewis Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgment despite collective disapproval.~ Sir William Arthur Lewis The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.~ Martin Luther I refuse to apologize for my ability -- I refuse to apologize for my success -- I refuse to apologize for my money. If this is evil, make the most of it.~ Ayn Rand The much occupied man has no time for wantonness, and it is an obvious commonplace that the evils of leisure can be shaken off by hard work.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca It would be some consolation for the feebleness of ourselves and our works, if all things should perish as slowly as they come into being; but as it is, increases are of sluggish growth, but the way to ruin is rapid.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.~ George Bernard Shaw Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain.~ Dr. Thomas Sowell Feudalism, serfdom, slavery, all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kind to rule, springing out of, and necessarily to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is the same in all cases -- less government.~ Herbert Spencer Does it not seem a vast waste of valuable human material that the pioneers of thought, those who by their genius dare to clear unknown paths in the arts and sciences and in government, should have to conform to the dictates of that non-creative, slow-moving mass, the majority? An appeal to the majority is a resort to force and not an appeal to intelligence; the majority is always ignorant, and by increasing the majority we multiply ignorance. The majority is incapable of initiative, its attitude being one of opposition toward everything that is new. If it had been left to the majority, the world would never have had the steamboat, the railroad, the telegraph, or any of the conveniences of modern life.~ Charles T. Sprading Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.~ Norbert Wiener Previous 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print