“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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American criminal and musician 1934–2017Related quotes
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.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 132
“Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.”
Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
Book I, Chapter 5, "We Have Cause to Be Uneasy"
Mere Christianity (1952)
“Not all that we call progress is progress.”
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“Change is one thing, progress is another.”
1950s, Unpopular Essays (1950)
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.”
Letter to Edward Carrington, Paris (27 May 1788) PTJ, 13:208-9 http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/natural-progress-things-quotation
1780s
Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson