Quotes of: Social-progress Keyword

Those societies in which seriousness, tradition, conformity and adherence to long-established - often god-prescribed - ways of doing things are the strictly enforced rule, have always been the majority across time and throughout the world. Such peopl...

Babylon: Mesopotamia And The Birth Of Civilization

I also believe that man’s continued domestication (if you care to use that silly euphemism) of dogs is motivated by fear: fear that dogs, left to evolve on their own, would, in fact, develop thumbs and smaller tongues, and therefore would be superi...

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Here I want to stress that perception of losing one’s mind is based on culturally derived and socially ingrained stereotypes as to the significance of symptoms such as hearing voices, losing temporal and spatial orientation, and sensing that one is...

Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates

There are extremes within any population, but on average, at least among young adults, those who feel lonely actually spend no more time alone than do those who feel more connected. They are no more or less physically attractive than average, and the...

Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection

One of the newest figures to emerge on the world stage in recent years is the social entrepreneur. This is usually someone who burns with desire to make a positive social impact on the world, but believes that the best way of doing it is, as the sayi...

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Mahatma Gandhi

Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.

Harmony Korine

Equality for women is progress for all.

Ban Ki-moon

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

Ralph Adams Cram

The good thing is that life is sometimes a work in progress.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

James Thurber

Life is short and progress is slow.

Gabriel Lippmann

Wherever there is peace, there is progress.

Amit Kalantri

Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.

Johann Lamont

I couldn't be more proud of my work as a progressive.

Christine Quinn

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

Ed Asner

[P]ower is at its most potent when it can operate silently.

Early Modern England: A Social History 1550 1760

Inaction is no longer acceptable.

The Collaboration Economy: How to Meet Business, Social, and Environmental Needs and Gain Competitive Advantage

In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private account...

Herman Cain

You've gotta understand that with branding and the way things are promoted, in our day and age, your older movie stars are not reachable or accessible because they're not a part of the whole social media world.

Kevin Hart

The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut.

Mark Dayton