Amelioration Quotes

“There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.”
― George Eliot

“The amelioration of society was the very thing Philosophers had most at heart, and surely it was eminently fitting that they should be called in to tutor princes.”
― Carl L. Becker

“A healthy dose of doubt, uncertainty, and scepticism is an essential preliminary of amelioration.”
― Omar Cherif