Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume II, p. 105.
“The strongest of all the obstacles to progress, the reign of the dead.”
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902) British politician and historian
Private notes, quoted in G. E. Fasnacht, Acton's Political Philosophy. An Analysis (1952), p. 60, n. 1
Undated
“Contrary to earlier prejudices, there is nothing inherently progressive about evolution.”
Richard Dawkins book The Blind Watchmaker
Source: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 7 “Constructive Evolution” (p. 178)
“If we exert ourselves with determination, no obstacle, however formidable, can stop our progress.”
Bidhan Chandra Roy (1882–1962) Former Chief Minister of West Bengal, India
In Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html,
Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba
The Second Declaration of Havana (1962)
Dadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917) Indian politician
About Dadabhai, Narrow-majority’ and ‘Bow-and-agree’: Public Attitudes Towards the Elections of the First Asian MPs in Britain, Dadabhai Naoroji and Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownaggree, 1885-1906
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Quoted in Library of Living Philosophers: The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell (1944)
1940s
Anatole France book The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Il se flattait d'être sans préjugés, et cette prétention était à elle seule un gros préjugé.
Pt. II, ch. 4
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)
