Progress Quotes

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. (Albert Einstein)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
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 little. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork? View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Progress, that great heresy of degenerates. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. View quote
Joseph Joubert
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. View quote
Niels Bohr
The power to question is the basis of all human progress. View quote
Indira Gandhi
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. View quote
Harold Wilson
Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. (Thor Heyerdahl)
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism. View quote
Earl Warren
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
A process which led from the amœba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amœba would agree with this opinion is not known. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies. View quote
William Howard Taft
The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes. (Salman Rushdie)
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. View quote
Russell Baker
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress. View quote
Alan Perlis
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long. View quote
Ogden Nash