1,930 Quotes About Progress

The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the edge of space that smoke means progress or, at least, people setting fire to things.

In other words, I tasted a different drug. A drug called progress.

Progress is something with no pity, and no purpose. It just happens. It chews up all you ever knew, and spits out things you can't understand, and the only value it seems to have is to make a few people a lot of money.

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no such thing.

Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.