Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sometimes making progress a step at a time is better than no progress at all.
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
The trouble with progress is that it tends to happen slowly and quietly. It's not necessarily going to shout about itself, or make the nightly news like a disaster or a scandal would.
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway.
Nothing recedes like progress.
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
You make a ton of progress by making a ton of mistakes.