Progress Of Society Quotes

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

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Knowledge, Information Is Power

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspiring, Education, Teacher

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.107, Best Books on

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• All progress means war with society.

  George Bernard Shaw

  War, Mean, Evolution

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2650, e-artnow

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• Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Civilization, Savages

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.77, Penguin

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• Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Progress, Cult, Superlatives

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• The human mind is our fundamental resource.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  Special Message to the Congress on Education, February 20, 1961.

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• Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

  Ayn Rand

  Civilization, Political, Savages

  The Fountainhead pt. 4, ch. 18 (1943)

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• 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.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Men, Law

  The Fountainhead pt. 4, ch. 18 (1943)

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• Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Law, Legislation, Conform

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.684, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Capital is to the progress of society what gas is to a car.

  James Adams

  Car, Gas, Progress

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• Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.

  Bill Maher

  Progress, Detrimental

  "Bill Maher's Anti-Religion Movie" by Roger Friedman, www.foxnews.com. August 22, 2008.

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• It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By a universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common is the property for the moment of him who occupies it; but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it. Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Law, Land

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• The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  World, Improvement, Conditions

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, February 27, 1890.

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• Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Learning, Natural

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Truth Is, Should

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4277, e-artnow

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• In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to be covered before the prison becomes, if it ever does, an institution for the reclamation and rehabilitation of erring and unfortunate men and women.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Men, Doe, Rehabilitation

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• 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.

  Robert Southey

  Humble, Six, Generations

  Robert Southey (1865). “The Doctor, Etc”, p.31

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• Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Political, Lines, Politics

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.97, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.

  Earl Browder

  Mean, Expansion, Development

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