Reason and Progress, the old firm is selling out! Everyone get out while the going’s good. Those forgotten shares you had in the old traditions, the old beliefs are going up – up and up and up. John Osborne, Look Back in Anger, 1956
They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past. ibid.
What we call progress is the exchange for one nuisance for another nuisance. Havelock Ellis, Impressions and Comments, 1914
In defining progress I think it’s very important to make a distinction between good progress and bad progress. Ronald Wright, Surviving Progress, author A Short History of Progress, BBC 2012
There appears to be a clear trend towards increasing complexity. ibid.
Progress trap: to define human behaviours that sort of seem to be good things, seem to provide benefit in the short term, but which ultimately lead to disaster because they are unsustainable. ibid.
The people at the bottom begin to starve, and the people at the top begin to lose their legitimacy. ibid.
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. Frank Zappa
Progress was evident in the last Congress of the American Labor Union in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Karl Marx
Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life. George Monbiot
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass
Farming was the great leap forward. Andrew Marr’s History of the World I, BBC 2012
If America wants to do some big things about education, about climate, about economic inequality, you can do a lot worse than to look at 1964 and 1965 and see how even in a complicated, ultimately fallen universe you can make progress. The Soul of America, Sky Documentaries 2020
If we can’t find a way to admit that we’ve changed our mind, we’re not going to make progress. ibid.
If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone. Jordan Maxwell
We in the UAE have no such word as ‘impossible’; it does not exist in our lexicon. Such a word is used by the lazy and the weak, who fear challenges and progress. Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum
Life is a great adventure. The key to all true progress lies in faith, hope and love. George VI, cited Elizabeth, the Unseen Queen
Vietnam: We are making progress. We are pleased with the results we are getting. Lyndon Baines Johnson
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. F D Roosevelt