Quotes about Progress

I would like to say to my friends in Poland: Let's make good choices, vote for democracy.

We all have shortcomings.

When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.

You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.

I think AIDS can be won. I think we can win this fight. It is winnable. But it means behavior change.

You, my friend, are society. So welcome to the club of community, and even though some may try to drown out other styles of discourse with shouts about personal rights, the community may have a thing or two to say, and it may say it a lot louder. After all, community can only progress when its individuals exercise higher moral choices, and community is sacrificed when individuals choose with only themselves in mind.

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.

The hero is the champion of things becoming, not of things become, because he is.

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

Het modernisme rust niet voordat het van de vrouw een man en van de man een vrouw heeft gemaakt, en, alle onderscheid nivellerend, het leven doodt door het onder de ban van de eenvormigheid te leggen.

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.