Growth Quote by Henry Louis Mencken

Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix, and God.

— H. L. Mencken

Progress, the religion of those who have none.

— Lord Acton

Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort…

— Anonymous

Progress is the stride of God.

— Victor Hugo

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

— Barbra Streisand

“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

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

Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.

— George Zebrowski

When we are working at something, we come down from our high logical horse and sniff around with our nose to the ground. Then…

— Albert Einstein

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

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that…

— Victor Hugo

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