Charles Lindbergh Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• Is civilization progress? The challenge, I think, is clear; and, as clearly, the final answer will be given not by our amassing of knowledge, or by the discoveries of our science, or by the speed of our aircraft, but by the effect of our civilized activities as a whole have upon the quality of our planet's life-the life of plants and animals as that of men.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Life, Animal, Men

• In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced sucess with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Success, Brother, Believe

• I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft than on preserving the epoch-evolved environment of life, and that this was true of all technological progress.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Perfection, Progress, Aviation

  Foreword to "The Gentle Tasady: A Stone Age People in the Philippine Rain Forest" by John Nance, 1975.

• Here was a place where men and life and death had reached the lowest form of degradation. How could any reward in national progress even faintly justify the establishment and operation of
  such a place?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Men, Life And Death, Progress

  "Lindbergh Said to Regret Misperceptions Over Jews" by Herber Mitgang, archive.nytimes.com. April 20, 1980.

• Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Death, Progress, Would Be

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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