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Letter "P" » Progress
«The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force»
Author: George Bancroft
| About:
Civilization,
Force,
Intelligence,
Mind,
Progress,
Wealth
| Keywords:
brute, brute force, exact, prevailed
«The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.»
«Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex»
«Responsive leaders prefer knowledge and information to be spread as widely as possible among the population, because an informed public is necessary to govern effectively, independent thought produces original ideas and is the key factor by which we progress as a society. When independent thought is stifled society is and will remain stagnant until it is free to flourish once again.»
«Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened»
Author: Madame de Stael
| About:
Progress,
Science
| Keywords:
abuse of power, abusing, checks, increased, restrain, scientific, Scientific progress, strengthened
«Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.»
«There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.»
«The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.»
«The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Censorship,
Progress
| Keywords:
censorship, removal
«There's no time in life to be in neutral.»
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