Appendix Quote by H. L. Mencken

Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God

— Henry Louis Mencken

Progress, the religion of those who have none.

— Lord Acton

I think we have made progress. There's no doubt about it, we have moved forward. But there's some essential, core thing that has not…

— Eve Ensler

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Progress is a comfortable disease.

— e. e. cummings

“In our social world we have only a thin layer of topsoil-tolerance-for people and cultures that are different from our own. When times get…

— Gary Holthaus

No more gods, no more faith, no more timid holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our weakness, and…

— Max More

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Our practical faith in progress has ramified and hardened into an ideology -- a secular religion which, like the religions that progress has challenged,…

— Ronald Wright

“The cure for our modern maladies is dirt under the fingernails and the feel of thick grass between the toes. The cure for our…

— L.M. Browning

Human progress planned as alternatives (to God's plan) introduce in justice, evil and violence rising against the divine plan of justice and salvation. And…

— Pope John Paul II

As humans we are born of the Earth, nourished by the Earth, healed by the Earth.

— Thomas Berry