Victor Hugo Quotes

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man is found,—a dweller in caves, or on trees, like an ape, a cannibal, an eater of pounded snails, worms, and offal,—a certain degree of progress from this extreme is called Civilization.

The world is evolving.

There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage.

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin.

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

Africa is the future.

Stand up for what you know is right.

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.

You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.

If anything's progressive, then we make progress.

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

Malawians must look forward toward a better future.

No human being or society ... ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal

All civilizations must go through four stages: The first stage is the emergence of a new civilization and society. The second stage covers a period of growth and prosperity. Stagnation and decadence characterize the third stage where wealth can no longer increase. This brings us to a fourth stage of decline leading to the ultimate collapse. Finally, a new civilization emerges from the ashes of the previous one and another cycle is born. The conditions of the world, and of the nations do not persist in one unchanging state but are transformed with the passage of time and move from one condition to another

Change is not always progress.

It's not enough to keep people in a static condition. We've got to give them lift.

Civilization and profits go hand in hand.

Progress includes Order, but Order does not include Progress.

Education is the foundation of social progress and economic development.