#progress

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. ↗

— Russell Baker

#done #excuse #just #progress #really

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. ↗

— George Bancroft

#brute force #civilization #common #common mind #degree

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

#comfortable #destroy #did #evil #fair

I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#communist #doctrines #fed #fed up #go

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#even #ibm #more #progress #stand

The power to question is the basis of all human progress. ↗

— Indira Gandhi

#human #human progress #power #progress #question

Discontent is the first necessity of progress. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#first #necessity #progress

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#healthy #honesty #progress #progress

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#concerns #concrete #contributions #criteria #economic

Not everyone likes watching rushes, but it makes me work harder, and I don't feel I am watching myself, but watching the progression of the character. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#character #everyone #feel #harder #i