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Character is the colossal hope of human improvement within and without. -- Sri Chinmoy
Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal. -- Dalai Lama
A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress. -- John Stuart Mill
However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly. -- Frances Wright
It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar. Such communication has always been... one of the primary sources of progress. -- John Stuart Mill
Human improvement is from within outward. -- James Anthony Froude
Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people. -- Eli Broad
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today. -- Arthur Erickson
The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life. -- Theodor Svedberg
Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in. -- Frederick Sanger
There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former. -- Max Baucus
It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth. -- Joseph P. Bradley
And the biggest improvement I see between 'Up in the Air' and 'Juno' and 'Thank You for Smoking' is that 'Up in the Air' deals with the complicated human stuff in a way that my other films have not. It's a more articulated film, and because of that, I'm most proud of it. -- Jason Reitman
It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection. -- Samuel Freeman Miller
The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition. -- Thomas Jefferson
Love & kindness have far greater influence than punishment upon the improvement of human character. -- Shoghi Effendi
A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness. -- Vaclav Havel
Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution. -- African Spir
I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals. -- Henry David Thoreau
I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals. -- Henry David Thoreau
Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul. -- Wassily Kandinsky
Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement. -- Elizabeth Carter
When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition. -- Brian S. Wesbury
When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition. -- Brian S. Wesbury
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today." -- Arthur Erickson
In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle. -- Tony Robbins
Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress. -- Theodore Levitt
Society's future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting. -- Neil Armstrong
Human beings are capable of virtually limitless degradation; they are also capable of virtually limitless improvement and achievement. Success depends on goals and on diligence in pursuing them. -- Mas Oyama
The Qur'an does not ask for human perfection, but rather asks that we persevere in striving for self-improvement and that we never become complacent or despondent about our progress. -- Jeffrey Lang

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