Societal Progress Quotes

#1. We're multiplying our capabilities as a civilization and yet we still accept the notion that important societal progress, like combating inequality and crime - or even innovating in government and medicine - must take generations.

Shane Snow

#2. Education is the miracle; I'm just the worker.

Taylor Mali

#3. In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.

Chinua Achebe

#4. If things go wrong, you don't have to accept you made a bum decision.

Dorothy Koomson

#5. Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

Doris Lessing

#6. For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, 'Where's your home?' I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be.

Pico Iyer

#7. Without good communication, a relationship is merely a hollow vessel carrying you along on a frustrating journey fraught with the perils of confusion, projection, and misunderstanding.

Cherie Carter-Scott

#8. From generation to generation, America should never be the same country.

Bryant McGill

#9. It takes practice to become proficient at something. Practicing the presence of God will make us good at it.

R. Alan Woods

#10. If one generation does not see how to absolutely solve things that are wrong today, another generation shall surely come to suffer from the same wrong things tomorrow!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#11. To my mind, Death in Venice represents an enormous advance in Mann's literary development, not simply for the commonly appreciated reason that he crafted a superbly supple and elegant style, apparently well suited to the kind of prose Aschenbach is supposed to write.

Philip Kitcher

#12. The one time I tried to get her to watch Pride and Prejudice, she hadn't been able to sit still. Granted, it was the six-hour version, but come on. What's not to love?

Alyxandra Harvey