"Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society"

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards"

"Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be"

"A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity"

"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity"

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"

"In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am"

"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual"

"Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer"

"Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence"

"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future"