„Without deviation, progress is not possible.“

„The ambiguity of progress becomes evident. Without doubt, it offers new possibilities for good, but it also opens up appalling possibilities for evil — possibilities that formerly did not exist. We have all witnessed the way in which progress, in the wrong hands, can become and has indeed become a terrifying progress in evil. If technical progress is not matched by corresponding progress in man's ethical formation, in man's inner growth (cf. Eph 3:16; 2 Cor 4:16), then it is not progress at all, but a threat for man and for the world.“

—  Pope Benedict XVI 265th Pope of the Catholic Church 1927

In Encyclical Letter Spe Salvi http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20071130_spe-salvi_en.html (30 November 2007)
2007

„Progress is implied in independence. Without self-government neither industrial progress is possible, nor the educational scheme will be useful to the nation…To make efforts for India’s freedom is more important than social reforms.“

—  Bal Gangadhar Tilak Indian independence activist 1856 - 1920

[Hunt, Frazier, Great Personalities, http://books.google.com/books?id=EgEZRS4xer0C&pg=PT153, 1931, New York Life Insurance Company, 153–]

„Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite.“

—  Abraham Pais American Physicist 1918 - 2000

Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988) http://books.google.com/books?id=mREnwpAqz-YC, p. 4
Kontext: Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite. Every one of the many major advances … created sooner or later, more often sooner, new problems. These confusions, never twice the same, are not to be deplored. Rather, those who participate experience them as a privilege.

„Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.“

—  John Wooden American basketball coach 1910 - 2010

Zdroj: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

„We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.“

—  Robert L. Heilbroner American historian and economist 1919 - 2005

Zdroj: The Future As History (1960), Chapter IV, Part 6, The Inertia of History, p. 195

„Individualism is bad for business – though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent. And yes, it's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism.“

—  Tom Robbins American writer 1932

The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)
Kontext: We humans have always defined ourselves by narration. What's happening today is that we're allowing multi-national corporations to tell our stories for us. The theme of corporate stories (and millions drink them in every day) seldom varies: to be happy you must consume, to be special you must conform. Absurd, obviously, yet our identities have become so fragile, so elusive, that we seem content to let advertisers provide us with their version of who we are, to let them recreate us in their image: a cookie-cutter image based on market research, shallow sociology, and insidious lies. Individualism is bad for business – though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent. And yes, it's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism..

„There will be no development without education, no progress without culture.“

—  Alberto Assa Colombian eductor and translator 1909 - 1996

No habrá desarrollo sin educación, ni progreso sin cultura.
Instituto Experimental del Atlántico "José Celestino Mutis" http://web.archive.org/web/20130421041951/http://www.colegio-iea.com/Glosas%20Experimentales_Nr1.pdf

„Without contraries there is no progression.“

—  William Blake, kniha The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Zdroj: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

„Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us.“

—  Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961

Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Abe of Japan at Hiroshima Peace Memorial at Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan (May 27, 2016) https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/27/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-abe-japan-hiroshima-peace
2016
Kontext: There are many sites around the world that chronicle this war -- memorials that tell stories of courage and heroism; graves and empty camps that echo of unspeakable depravity. Yet in the image of a mushroom cloud that rose into these skies, we are most starkly reminded of humanity’s core contradiction; how the very spark that marks us as a species -- our thoughts, our imagination, our language, our tool-making, our ability to set ourselves apart from nature and bend it to our will -- those very things also give us the capacity for unmatched destruction. [... ] Science allows us to communicate across the seas and fly above the clouds; to cure disease and understand the cosmos. But those same discoveries can be turned into ever-more efficient killing machines. The wars of the modern age teach this truth. Hiroshima teaches this truth. Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us. The scientific revolution that led to the splitting of an atom requires a moral revolution, as well.

„There is no change without risk, and no progress without sacrifice, and no freedom without solidarity.“

—  Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961

2014, 25th Anniversary of Polish Freedom Day Speech (June 2014)

„There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.“

—  Christopher Hitchens, kniha Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Zdroj: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

„Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too.“

—  Dejan Stojanovic, kniha The Sign and Its Children

"The Eye of a Sign," p. 43
The Sign and Its Children (2000), Sequence: “A Word and a Sign”

„Lenin was a right-wing deviation of the socialist movement and he was so regarded…by the mainstream Marxists… Bolshevism was a right-wing deviation.“

—  Noam Chomsky american linguist, philosopher and activist 1928

Speech on “Lenin, Trotsky and Socialism and the Soviet Union”, (March 15, 1989) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQsceZ9skQI
Quotes 1960s–1980s, 1980s

„Homosexuals are not deviating from Islam. Homosexuality is a grave sin, but those who say that homosexuals deviate from Islam are the real deviators. By condemning homosexuals to death they are committing a graver sin than homosexuality itself.“

—  Salman al-Ouda journalist 1956

2016

„Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause, without obtaining it, than obtain, without deserving it; if it follow them, it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it. With inferior minds the reverse is observable.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton British priest and writer 1780 - 1832

Vol. I; VI
Lacon (1820)

„Progress is only possible by passing from a state of undifferentiated wholeness to differentiation of parts.“

—  Ludwig von Bertalanffy austrian biologist and philosopher 1901 - 1972

Zdroj: General System Theory (1968), 3. Some System Concepts in Elementary Mathematical Consideration, p. 69

„Progress in civilization seems possible only in interludes when history is idling.“

—  John Gray British philosopher 1948

An Old Chaos: The Emperor's Tomb (p. 35)
The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths (2013)

„Without heresy there could have been no progress.“

—  Robert G. Ingersoll Union United States Army officer 1833 - 1899

Heretics and Heresies (1874)
Kontext: Every church pretends that it has a revelation from God, and that this revelation must be given to the people through the church; that the church acts through its priests, and that ordinary mortals must be content with a revelation — not from God — but from the church. Had the people submitted to this preposterous claim, of course there could have been but one church, and that church never could have advanced. It might have retrograded, because it is not necessary to think or investigate in order to forget. Without heresy there could have been no progress.

„Progress is impossible without the ability to admit mistakes.“

—  Masaaki Imai Japanese business theorist and consultant 1930