Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes

The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvellous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress in humanity that has been granted to us.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

The major challenge facing us is to elevate our national life to the highest level of civilization and prosperity.

More people in more countries, both developing and developed, have experienced larger increases in living standards than in any prior fifty year period.

Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilization.

Machines and their development provide the greatest opportunity in the whole history of mankind to improve the lot of the individual human being.

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.

Growth and prosperity. These are the blocks with which we must build our welfare society.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

I think generationally, as human progress does its thing, we are constantly impressed by the upcoming generation.

The normal metric of measuring progress has actually been the rate of growth, OK? It's not a wrong metric, but it's not a full metric.

We should be focused on how to make people's lives better. That is the purpose of technology.

As we progress as a species, we will unlock new means for enhancing our lives at every turn - and our conceptions of wealth and poverty will evolve in tandem.

Countries with higher incomes on average achieve better human development. I do not believe that growth alone will 'cure' poverty. But I do believe that growth is necessary.

Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.