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• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair s*x, the ugly ones included.

  Karl Heinrich Marx

  Topics in History, Progress

• Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.

  Bhumibol Adulyadej

  Topics in Country, Progress

  Tags in Change

• The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

  Felix Adler

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Diversity, Differentiation

• Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.

  Kate Adie

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Russian, Illustration, Authority

• But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.

  Alex Campbell

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Lesser, Lacking, Canadians, Recognized, Meaningful, Essential, Affluent, Canada

• As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

  Alex Campbell

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Consequence, Magnitude, Standards, Excellence, Profit, Prosperity

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Impede

• Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.

  William Banting

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Obstructed, Path, Destroy

• The reason of the close concurrence between the individual’s progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.

  James M. Baldwin

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Therefore, Dependence

• On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Topics in Leadership, Progress

  Tags in Designated, Assume, Steady

• Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

  Walter Bagehot

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Poison

• The idea is that they wouldn’t want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that’s what we are doing here.

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Committed, Militant, Muslims

• The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Knowing

• A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

  Irving Babbitt

  Topics in Progress, Sympathy

  Tags in Creed, Lump, Humanitarian

• Without struggle there is no progress.

  Unknown

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Struggle

• I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Obstacles, Addiction, Obstinate, Remain

• Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Progress, Respect

  Tags in Conservatives, Preparation, Quitting, Conservatism

• America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Progress

• The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

  Albert Camus

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Philosopher, Wrong, Learning

• I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Slowly, Backward