James Stephens Quotes

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

Mankind advances only through struggle.

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

In violence, we forget who we are.

Africa is progressing but maybe not in the way you think it is. Even if the overall picture looks good, we must all remain vigilant and not get complacent.

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.

In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.

Man’s life is warfare against the malice of men.

There is no progress without struggle.

Mankind, his brain has embraced so many amazing things, and yet we're still beating each other over the heads with clubs, excepting the bullets now, one bullet can wipe out an entire city.

If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that.

As human beings, we need to evolve with time, and if you fail to do that, your existence will suffer.

We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Changes are products of intensive efforts.

You have to keep evolving.

You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.