Societal Advancement Quotes

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years, has at last come to pass in an Ireland where the talents of women are now flooding every aspect of life as never before.

History is not merely a procession of people in fancy dress fighting wars. It is crucially the story of man's evolution from grunting cave dweller to serious thinker, from cruelly retributive law to merciful law, from casual barbarism to care and compassion.

But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind.

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

Each generation looks to its children to keep our society moving and to make life better.

We've had to overcome a lot in America to become a nation of progress. We still have a lot of progress to be made.

No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.

The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.

As women go, so goes civilization.

Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity.

The prosperity and advancement of a nation depend upon its intelligentsia, and Muslim India is looking forward to her young generation and education classes to give a bold lead for our guidance and a brilliant record of historical achievements and traditions…

I want to talk about the nature of human beings or how we're evolving as a race.

Economics is on the side of humanity now.

No nation ever rises higher than its women.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

The great society.

Our kids are our biggest assets. They are the future of our country. If we provide them good education, no one can stop India from becoming a developed country.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.