Command Quote by Lewis Mumford

Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.

— Will Durant

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

— George Monbiot

Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.

— C. S. Lewis

Progress grows out of motion.

— Richard E. Byrd

“Too often, the notion of progress is used as a code word for perfection, the chain of being in a different guise. The term…

— Steve Jones

Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to…

— E. O. Wilson

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

— George Zebrowski

Progress? There's no such thing as progress. There's only change. You dig a hole in the ground, you build up a city, and you…

— Charles Manson

Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances,…

— Victor Hugo

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

— Walter Benjamin

Very much of what we call the progress of today consists in getting rid of false ideas, false conceptions of things, and in taking…

— William D. Hoard

“Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything.”

— Thomas M. Sterner