Human Progress Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  Kings, Government, Tyrants

  Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.9

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• Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

  Mac Thornberry

  Growth, Progress, Quality

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• I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development.

  Li Peng

  Years, Hands, Progress

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• Freedom is the core of all human progress. It believes that nothing's given to us, but if you're willing to work hard. If you're willing to compete, the American dream is there for you.

  Connie Mack IV

  Dream, Believe, Hard Work

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• The 20th century ended with a single surviving model of human progress.

  George W. Bush

  War, Progress, Cold

  George W. Bush's commencement address at the United States Military Academy at West Point, www.nytimes.com. June 1, 2002.

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• 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.

  Reed Hastings

  Technology, Years, Long

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• 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.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, Progress, Would Be

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• Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries. In the United States, the subtle spell of opium has been broken by restrictive legislation; the grip of the rum demon has been loosened by the Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution, but the tobacco habit still maintains its strangle-hold and more than one hundred million victims of tobaccoism daily burn incense to the smoke god.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Science, Broken, Progress

  John Harvey Kellogg (1922). “Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,”

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• It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment of mankind. It is the spirit of the child that can determine the course of human progress and lead it perhaps even to a higher form of civilization.

  Maria Montessori

  Strong, Children, Psychics

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• 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.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Men, Greed, Progress

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Progress, Humans

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• According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Progress, Humans, Disobedience

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2250, Manonmani Publishers

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• Nobody has the right to shield any idea as so sacred it can’t be challenged. ... Almost all human progress is driven by people who stood up and said ‘I disagree’ with this idea that society at the time considered to be the most precious.’

  Glenn Greenwald

  Ideas, People, Progress

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• Procrastination is a deadly weapon of human progress.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Procrastination, Progress, Weapons

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