Progress Narrative Quotes

Brexit and Trump had upended the fundamental establishment viewpoint that politics was aspirational, that good politics promised progress, generational betterment and ever-expanding world reach.

The narrative of progress is no longer sustainable.

I don't want to tell a story about how technological advancement is bad.

It's P for Progress not R for Recovery.

What the underdog socialist has forgotten is that the story of the left ought to be a narrative of hope and progress.

The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to praise revolutions provided they have been successful, to emphasise certain principles of progress in the past and to produce a story which is the ratification if not the glorification of the present.

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.