LeVar Burton Quotes

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.

Historically - when you look at how America has evolved, typically we make progress on race relations in fits and starts. We make some progress, and then there's maybe some slippage.

As a society becomes more enlightened, it realizes that it is responsible not to transmit and conserve the whole of its existing achievements, but only such as make for a better future society. The school is its chief agency for the accomplishment of this end.

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.

All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.

People who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.

The social states of human kinds Are made by multitudes of minds, And after multitudes of years A little human growth appears Worth having, even to the soul Who sees most plain it's not the whole.

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

Cultural change always precedes political change.

When we empower women, society benefits, grows, and thrives.

Everything in culture moves in a cyclical way.

At the end of the day, films mirror our society. It will take time for everybody to open up to this and accept it. They are not instantly going to sit up and change the way they think about it.

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.

Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.

Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them.

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually evolve into a universal state.