“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 fight a war, and you call it progress?”
Interview track from Charles Manson Sings (2006)
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Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), 2016 Democratic National Convention (July 28, 2016)
Context: It became clear to me that simply caring is not enough. To drive real progress, you have to change both hearts and laws. You need both understanding and action.
“If you want something different, DO something different. Without change progress is impossible.”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 132
“Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.”
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
Clive Staples Lewis book Mere Christianity
Book I, Chapter 5, "We Have Cause to Be Uneasy"
Mere Christianity (1952)
“Not all that we call progress is progress.”
Paul Harvey (1918–2009) American broadcaster
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“Change is one thing, progress is another.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
1950s, Unpopular Essays (1950)
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to Edward Carrington, Paris (27 May 1788) PTJ, 13:208-9 http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/natural-progress-things-quotation <br class="br">1780s <br class="br">Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson