"The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development." - Confucius

"What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance." - Havelock Ellis, Impressions and Comments

"The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia." - Elbert Green Hubbard

"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions." - Adlai E. Stevenson

"Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo." - Byrne, Robert

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress.... Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate confrontation, are people who want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters." - Douglass, Frederick (c1817-1895)

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." - Einstein, Albert

"We need above all to know about changes; no one wants or needs to be reminded 16 hours a day that his shoes are on." - Hubel, David [neuroscientist] 1979

"I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all." - Nash, Ogden

"Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long." - Nash, Ogden

"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature." - Robbins, Tom