Quotes about Progress

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example. It is still clinging to one or two things which were useful once, but which are not useful now, neither are they ornamental.

It isn't as it used to be in the old times. Then everybody traveled by steamboat, everybody drank, and everybody treated everybody else. 'Now most everybody goes by railroad, and the rest don't drink.

Many a reader who wanted to read a tale through was not able to do it because of delays on account of the weather. Nothing breaks up an author's progress like having to stop every few pages to fuss-up the weather. Thus it is plain that persistent intrusions of weather are bad for both reader and author.

All men will confess that without Christian civilization war must have remained a poor and trifling thing to the end of time.

We were building several lines of railway, and our line from Camelot to London was already finished and in operation.

We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Change takes a long time, but it does happen. ... Each of us who works for social change is part of the mosaic of all who work for justice; together we can accomplish multitudes.

And somewhere along the way it is necessary to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God.

There is no gain without struggle.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.