Community Quote by Richard M. Weaver

Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the…

— Aldous Huxley

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not a 'steadily…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“We’re multiplying our capabilities as a civilization and yet we still accept the notion that important societal progress, like combating inequality and crime—or even…

— Shane Snow

Economic progress means the discovery and application of better ways of doing things to satisfy our wants. The piping of water to a household…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“All progress demands payment. These are the growing pains of which you speak, not the final results." "Fool! There is no such thing as…

— Roger Zelazny

“There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress, it doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. It’s progress…

— Graham Swift

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would…

— Bertrand Russell

But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from constant innovation…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

All progress means war with society.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up,…

— Booker T. Washington