Progress Quotes - page 2

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. (Aldous Huxley)
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. View quote
Franz Kafka
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. View quote
Karl Marx
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. View quote
Gerald Ford
Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. View quote
Morris Raphael Cohen
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. View quote
John Updike
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. View quote
Frank Zappa
There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort. View quote
Norman Borlaug
In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere. (Morihei Ueshiba)
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. View quote
Samuel Johnson
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. View quote
Emil Cioran
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Without a struggle, there can be no progress. View quote
Frederick Douglass
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. View quote
Robert Browning
With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly. View quote
Gordon Moore
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. (Guy Debord)
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution. View quote
Glenn Beck
Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. View quote
George Orwell