Decay Quote by Samuel Smiles

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

— George Bancroft

Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs.…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Progress is personal; it comes from individuals demanding more of themselves and everyone else.

— Richard Koch

In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which everybody can…

— Peter Thiel

Progress starts with envisioning a new (yet old) lifestyle with the home as central to all aspects of life-work and leisure, food and energy.…

— Jules Dervaes

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

National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races.

— Swami Vivekananda

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

All progress means war with society.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.

— Lewis Mumford

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into…

— Alex Campbell