The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you.
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
If anything's progressive, then we make progress.
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life.
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