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.
Quotes about amelioration (5 Quotes)
This is the Law and Order and Terror government. It promised protection - or at least amelioration - against all threats conventional, radiological, or biological. It has just proved that it cannot save its citizens from a biological weapon called standing water.
Philosophy should be an energy it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.
The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.
If there is ever an amelioration of the condition of mankind, philosophers, theologians, legislators, politicians and moralists will find that the regulation of the press is the most difficult, dangerous and important problem they have to resolve. Mankind cannot now be governed without it, nor at present with it.