Quotes by Progress The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling - be it an illusion or not - that something new has opened up. Alberto Giacometti progressgiving-upfeelings The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not. Aldo Leopold opponentsprogresslaw Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left. Aldous Huxley progressmedicinehealthy Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well. Aldous Huxley medical-scienceprogressmedicine Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Aldous Huxley progresstechnologymean Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation. Aldous Huxley industrializationassetsprogress Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto. Aldous Huxley progresscharityreal Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it's more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards. Aldous Huxley progressorganizationeducation Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted. Aldous Huxley progressgainstaken Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not a 'steadily expanding economy', but a zero growth economy, a stable economy. Economic growth is not only unnecessary but ruinous. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn progressgrowthzero As a student of life I just want to be constantly progressing mentally, physically, and spiritually. Alex Caceres mmaprogresswant As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence. Alex Campbell progressexcellencemean But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp. Alex Campbell progressessentialsmeaningful Van Halen is a work in progress. Alex Van Halen work-in-progressvansprogress If you're trying to diet, what do you do? You grab your two friends and say, 'We're going to the gym; let's do this together.' Money shouldn't be any different. If you're trying to make progress, if you're trying to save more, we really need to be able to get support. Alexa Von Tobel two-friendsprogresssupport These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs. Alexander Hamilton affairprogresshuman-nature 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. Alexander Hamilton resourcesprogressusual Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price. Alexander Herzen progressabledevelopment The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history. Alexis de Tocqueville uniformsprogressdemocracy The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. Alfred de Vigny progressanalysisheart«1234567891011»
