Negative Progress Quotes

By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.

You don't want to get worse at something.

Sometimes you try to change, and you go backwards.

The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.

Progress just means bad things happen faster.

whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.

People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

It is the mark of a primitive society to view regression as progress.

Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.

She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?

There is a certain relief in change even though it be from bad to worse.

If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it.

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

If you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

If you are content with yourself, you'll stop taking those little steps forward and begin taking big steps backward.

We should never fall into the trap of accepting that all progress as good.

I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.

I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress.