Quotes about progression
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“We’re proud of our progress, but we can’t take our foot off the gas.”

Brian Kemp (1963) American politician, Governor of Georgia

9:20am on Saturday 4th December 2020 https://twitter.com/GovKemp/status/1334865114458152963

“Citizens whose incomes do not exceed what is required for their subsistence are exempted from contributing to state expenditure; all others must support it progressively according to their wealth.”

Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician

On Property (24 April 1793)

Support, Wealth

“Has not authority from time immemorial stamped every step of progress as treasonable?”

Emma Goldman book Anarchism and Other Essays

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty

Time

“Every disagreement is a crisis. But when you take a step back and look at what’s happening, we’re actually making real progress. Maybe it doesn’t seem fast enough.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

Biden Celebrates Drop in Unemployment Even as Job Growth Weakens https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/biden-celebrates-drop-in-unemployment-even-as-job-growth-weakens-1.1663842(October 2021) <br class="br">2021, October 2021

“Optimism with regard to labour as an agency of social progress has been replaced by pessimism that sees little prospect of workers acting on their own behalf.”

Neethi Padmanabhan Indian academic

Globalisation Lived Locally: A Labour Geography Perspective on Control, Conflict and Response among Workers in Kerala https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263155852_Globalisation_Lived_Locally_A_Labour_Geography_Perspective_on_Control_Conflict_and_Response_among_Workers_in_Kerala, 2012, at ResearchGate

Optimism

“If you continue to visualize things in the past, you are unlikely to make much progress in the present and the future.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Past, Future

“Only those who are overly cautious and haters of progress will always be against technological development.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“If the life of one girl changes through education, she changes three families – one, her own, second the in which she gets married into, and third the one she builds. This moves the nation on its path to progress.”

Vinod Gupta (1946) American businessman

Your Story, How this Indian-born American ensured his village in UP got the educational institutes it deserves, Shinjini, Chowdhury, September 3, 2018 https://yourstory.com/2018/09/vinod-gupta-up-education,

Life, Education, Family, Girl

“Renunciation (Zuhd) is a noble station and it is the basis of all spiritual progress. It is the first step on the way to God. Without renunciation one cannot hope to make progress in this respect.”

Abu Nasr as-Sarraj

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 82

God, Hope, Way

“If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?”

Michael Douglas (1944) American actor and producer

As quoted in "The Unstoppable Michael Douglas" in The Christian Science Monitor (15 October 1996) https://www.csmonitor.com/1996/1015/101596.feat.film.1.html

“There are but three classes of men — the retrograde, the stationary, the progressive.”

Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) Swiss poet

No. 371
Aphorisms on Man (1788)

Men

“I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions; but it must be utility in the largest sense, grounded on the permanent interests of man as a progressive being.”

John Stuart Mill book On Liberty

Source: On Liberty (1859), Ch. 1: Introductory

Question, Sense

“The pope notwithstanding, the human species is by no means the pinnacle of evolution. Evolution has no pinnacle and there is no such thing as evolutionary progress.”

Matt Ridley book Genome

Source: Genome (1999), Chapter 2 “Species” (p. 24)

“Control of the mind can be achieved by understanding yourself, the aim and the energy which is blocking us from progressing. Between God and the Self, the blocking energy is the ego.”

Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition

Mount Madonna Messenger

God, Understanding

“Knowledge, understanding and cooperation will lead the country to happiness, security and progress.”

Vajiralongkorn (1952) King of Thailand

Source: "His Majesty presents televised end of year message" in Thaiger https://thethaiger.com/news/national/his-majesty-presents-televised-end-of-year-message (1 January 2021)

Happiness, Understanding, Knowledge, Country

“Those who value music pay for it. When left unmanaged, they can be left astray and lose the right path. As the listening level rises, the music progresses. The musicians of my generation tried to break the rule of singing.”

Reza Tajbakhsh (1981) Musical artist

Music, Singing