Social Improvement Quotes

For thousands of years, until about 1850, you see humans accumulating more and more power by the invention of new technologies and by new systems of organization in the economy and in politics, but you don't see any real improvement in the well-being of the average person.

The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.

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

If we provide quality education to one generation, poverty will automatically be eradicated from society.

The people who think it a shame when anything goes wrong—who rush to the conclusion that evil could or ought to have been prevented, are those who, in the long run, do most to make the world better.

When you increase productivity, economies become better - local economies become better, society becomes better.

China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.

In any community there's a strong pull home. People want to return, see their community get better economically and socially. You can build those community-grown opportunities for the kids who've graduated from college to return home, to provide businesses and support things going on. It'll only happen through education.

Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.

You can start changing our world for the better daily, no matter how small the action.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

We all need to rededicate ourselves to making America great and making it a more perfect union.

We cannot afford to not stick and work together for the betterment of our community.

There is this constant effort to progress in America, to make things better for everyone.

Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.

Respect for education—the idea that education will buy improvement in our lives—is one of the oldest and fundamental American ideas.

If we're saying there are incidents of oppression in this country, systematically or individually in this country, I don't think saying, 'Well, in country X, Y or Z it's 10 times worse' is making things any better. I think that may be true, but why can't we improve?

My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.

History suggests that economic upheavals such as the Industrial and Information Revolutions eventually play themselves out and leave the entire world better off.

If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.

We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance for honors and power we may expect that improvements will be made in the human character and the state of society.

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

If you're not satisfied with the way the world is, or if you think the world can be better, you have to figure out a way to know yourself and better yourself. Then you have the assurance that something in the world has improved.

It takes collaboration across a community to develop better skills for better lives.

I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.