Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .
Interpretation
Human progress requires active effort and is not guaranteed.
This quote underscores the importance of conscious and deliberate action in achieving societal progress. It highlights that advancements in humanity do not happen on their own; rather, they result from the dedication, courage, and collective effort of individuals who strive for change and justice.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech advocating for social change to emphasize the need for activism.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less life. The 20-year-old has a much more developed personality than the infant, and has drawn upon the investment of others to begin as-yet-unfulfilled projects.
Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.
The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.
the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.
A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.
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