Sentence examples for inevitable progress from inspiring English sources

He attacked the idea of inevitable progress, as developed by 18th-century philosophers, in his work Les Illusions du progrès (1908; "Illusions of Progress") and believed that the future was what men chose to make it.

There is no such thing as inevitable progress toward utopia.

Played in 10-minute doses, the game promised inevitable progress and threatened minimal failure.

But only a fool would stand in the way of inevitable progress, right?

Somewhere between this jeremiad and the naïve idea of inevitable progress lies the complicated truth.

Gentrification is making its inevitable progress, but the neighborhood still belongs to the full swath of its residents.

So sport reminds us all there can be no collective tide of justice without the groundswell of individual conscience; that there is nothing inevitable about progress.

A return to hostilities is inevitable if progress is not made and the root causes of conflict are not addressed," they said.

What the President has is a sophisticated theology, an anti-utopian belief that human imperfection is inevitable but progress is possible if human beings remain self-critical about what they can achieve.

In 1886 he published a new volume containing "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After," consisting mainly of imprecations against modern decadence and liberalism and a retraction of the earlier poem's belief in inevitable human progress.

Hook had argued that Deweyan pragmatism did not represent an excessively optimistic faith in human perfectibility, on the model of Condorcé, and distanced itself from a logically dialectical faith in the inevitable historical progress along the lines of Hegel or Marx.