#progress

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom. ↗

— Ed Miliband

#conventional #conventional wisdom #did #every #every time

Stagnation is self-abdication. ↗

— Ryan Talbot

#progress #self-abdication #self-esteem #self-worth #stagnation

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#both #governments #make #mobs #need

History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses. ↗

— michael p naughton

#technological-progress #technology #business

I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without the slightest embarrassment. ↗

— Johannes Rau

#auditorium #embarrassment #helping #here #i

We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#inspirational #progress #road #inspirational

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone. ↗

— Powell Clayton

#birth #born #conservative #gone #idea

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#causes #civilization #concern #forces #healthy

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#equations #getting #insight #line #point

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#beholden #congress #corporate #corporate interests #damaged