#ogre

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy. ↗

— Marie Curie

#i #neither #nor #progress #swift

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress. ↗

— Helene Deutsch

#equal rights #freedom #gates #i #indeed

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#constant #country #inevitable #progressive

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#progress #struggle

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#days #discussing #i #i have learned #learned

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#declaration #first #independence #interdependence #personality

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#failure #first #i #man #me

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#another #call #exchange #nuisance #progress

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#ethics #morality #progress #society #sorrow

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress. ↗

— Millard Fillmore

#mistake #progress #strange