#progress

Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy. ↗

— Earl Browder

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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery. ↗

— Fannie Farmer

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The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes. ↗

— Paul Feyerabend

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In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. ↗

— James Bryant Conant

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Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer. ↗

— Angela Davis

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But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions of the past 30 years. It needs a return to the conviction that economic growth and the affluence it brings is a means and not an end. The end is what it does to the lives, life-chances and hopes of people. Look at London. Of course it matters to all of us that London's economy flourishes. But the test of the enormous wealth generated in patches of the capital is not that it contributed 20%-30% to Britain's GDP but how it affects the lives of the millions who live and work there. What kind of lives are available to them? Can they afford to live there? If they can't, it is not compensation that London is also a paradise for the ultra-rich. Can they get decently paid jobs or jobs at all? If they can't, don't brag about all those Michelin-starred restaurants and their self-dramatising chefs. Or schooling for children? Inadequate schools are not offset by the fact that London universities could field a football team of Nobel prize winners. ↗

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

#capitalism #economics #education #london #morality

It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

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