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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.
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That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
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The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
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The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society I,I -
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
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The day for progress by force has passed; it will be progress by ideas or not at all.
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The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself: ''That is not what I meant by freedom - it is only social progress. ''
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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.
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The far right seeks to retain the material progress of American capitalism while removing some of its crucial causes and consequences - as though a bridge could be made to change part of its function by blowing up part of its supports and part of its exit.
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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
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The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.
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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
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