Progress just means bad things happen faster.
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Many people consider the things which government does for them as social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.