If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.
There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do.
Nationalism and socialism as actually lived and applied in the 20th century are the same thing (and in the 18th and 19th century, nationalism was often a force for classical liberalism!). It’s all a kind of reactionary tribalism (another “ism” ...
No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.
In terms of technological progress, the public is slower than focus group.
That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services.
In science, progress is possible. In fact, if one believes in Bayes' theorem, scientific progress is inevitable as predictions are made and as beliefs are tested and refined.
They make only progress. Instead of revenge, self progress is more safe to downgrade others including enemy.
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
Progress is made by walking down the path, more progress is made, by walking down the right path.
They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!
Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.
The Social Wishlist on Facebook is a great example of everything right about social media.
If Facebook gets your entire social graph, you don't necessarily want to share everything with your entire social graph. You might wanna parse that social graph. So there's a company called PASS that is a private social network that I personally use ...
Of all the various kinds of sexual intercourse, this has the least to recommend it. As an amusement, it is too fleeting; as an occupation, it is too wearing; as a public exhibition, there is no money in it. It is unsuited to the drawing room, and in ...
...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or ...
We advocate the atheistic philosophy because it is the only clear, consistent position which seems possible to us. As atheists, we simply deny the assumptions of theism; we declare that the God idea, in all its features, is unreasonable and unprovabl...
I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking. Progress is obviously the antithesis of independent thinking. For under independent or individualisti...
While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media.
One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the world created it.
