Quotes about progressive
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Every country on Earth needs a progressive Revolution. But these revolutions must come through the Revolutions in the mind, not through Revolutions using Violence!
Edwin Powell Hubble - The Realm of the Nebulae
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
Criss Jami - Killosophy
What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future.
George Soros -
Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.
Frank Zappa -
The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, 'All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions.
Jean Vanier - Finding Peace
We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.
Gift Gugu Mona -
The most progressive approach to life is to discuss ideas than people.
Brent Reilly -
These are lines from my asteroid-impact novel, Regolith:Just because there are no laws against stupidity doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be punished.I haven’t faced rejection this brutal since I was single.He smelled trouble like a fart in the shower.If this was a kiss of gratitude, then she must have been very grateful. Not since Bush and Cheney have so few spent so much so fast for so long for so little.As a nympho for mind-fucks, Lisa took to politics like a pig to mud. She began paying men complim
Jeanette Coron -
Often the greatest progress happen in the most difficult of times.
A.E. Samaan -
Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion.
Samad Behrangi -
From the will of a freedom-fighter, Farzad Kamangar:"Is it possible to be a teacher and not show the path to the sea to the little fish of the country? Is it possible to carry the heavy burden of being a teacher and be responsible for spreading the seeds of knowledge and still be silent? Is it possible to see the lumps in the throats of the students and witness their thin and malnourished faces and keep quiet? … I cannot imagine witnessing the pain and poverty of the people of this land and fail
Chuck Klosterman - I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains
Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can only win in the short term, because society cannot stop evolving (and social evolution inevitably dovetails with the agenda of those who see change as an abstract positive). It might take seventy years, but it always happens eventually. Serious historians are, almost without exception, self-styled progressives. Radical views--even the awf
Martin Guevara Urbina -
When the experts’ scientific knowledge is legitimated in terms of being rational, logical, efficient, educated, progressive, modern, and enlightened, what analogies can other segments of society . . . utilize to challenge them?
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Lucky nation is the one who has at least one great progressive revolutionary man in its history!
Merlyn Gabriel Miller - Drugs & Madness
A living culture is a progressive culture. It not only allows change, but actively encourages it.
Theodore Roosevelt -
Our fight is a fundamental fight against both of the old corrupt party machines, for both are under the dominion of the plunder league of the professional politicians who are controlled and sustained by the great beneficiaries of privilege and reaction.
Theodore Roosevelt -
If this country is really to go forward along the path of social and economic justice, there must be a new party of nationwide and non-sectional principles, a party where the titular national chiefs and the real state leaders shall be in genuine accord, a party in whose counsels the people shall be supreme, a party that shall represent in the nation and the several states alike the same cause, the cause of human rights and of governmental efficiency. At present both the old parties are controlle
Earl Nightingale -
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
Paul J. Meyer -
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.
Benjamin Disraeli -
In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.
Yasmin Mogahed - Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
And while it’s nice of you to want to call us ‘modern’ or ‘moderate,’ we’ll do without the redundancy. Islam is by definition moderate, so the more strictly we adhere to its fundamentals — the more moderate we’ll be. And Islam is by nature timeless and universal, so if we’re truly Islamic — we’ll always be modern.We’re not ‘Progressives’; we’re not ‘Conservatives’. We’re not ‘neo-Salafi’; we’re not ‘Islamists’. We’re not ‘Traditionalists’; we’re not ‘Wahabis’. We’re not ‘Immigrants’ and we’re no
Oscar A. Romero -
A church that does not provoke any crisis, preach a gospel that does not unsettle, proclaim a word of Godthat does not get under anyone's skin or a word of God that does not touch the real sin of the society in whichit is being proclaimed: what kind of gospel is that?
Winston S. Churchill -
Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks ... to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks
A.E. Samaan -
You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other.
A.E. Samaan -
There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law's meaning according to fad and fashion.
A.E. Samaan -
Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most.
Richard A. Epstein - Why Progressive Institutions Are Unsustainable
The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily to the current malaise.
Richard A. Epstein - Why Progressive Institutions Are Unsustainable
The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.
Richard A. Epstein - Why Progressive Institutions Are Unsustainable
The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.
Richard A. Epstein - Why Progressive Institutions Are Unsustainable
That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services.
Richard A. Epstein - Why Progressive Institutions Are Unsustainable
Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d'être of the [New Deal programs]. The contrast between the modern progressive and classical liberal agendas could not be more explicit.
Thomas Jefferson -
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)
Dom Helder Camara Archbishop of Recife in Brazil -
When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist. Dom Helder Camara – one of the great prophets of Christian "Liberation theology".
Hubert H. Humphrey -
The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life – the sick, the needy, and the handicapped.
President George Washington -
As mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
Aristotle -
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. &It is also in the interests of a tyrant to keep his people poor, so that they may not be able to afford the cost of protecting themselves by arms and be so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for rebellion.
Lee Atwater -
My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a lot of brotherhood. The '80s were about acquiring — acquiring wealth, power, prestige. I know. I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but
Aristotle -
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
Joseph Pulitzer -
In his 1907 retirement address, Joseph Pulitzer urged his successors to always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty.
Leonard Bernstein - Thinking and Writing in College
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Ramsay Burt - Spectacle and Sexuality
A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid, old-fashioned images and ideas about gender can be challenged and alternatives imagined. I have never seen a ballet performance that has not disappointed me.
Tim Kreider - We Learn Nothing
It’s easy to demonstrate how progressive and open-minded and loyal you are when it costs you nothing.
Abraham Lincoln -
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." &“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people”– –
Marian Wright Edelman -
Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.
John Kenneth Galbraith -
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness... & ... Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.–
John Stuart Mill -
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives... I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it. Suppose any party, in addition to whatever share it may possess of the ability of the community, has nearly the whole of its stupidity, that party must, by the law of its
A.E. Samaan -
You are cordially invited to go fuck yourself.
A.E. Samaan -
Neither Fascist Italy nor Spain adopted eugenics as an ideology central to their form of government the way the National Socialist did. However, socialist and progressive nations such as Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway did adopt and implement eugenics. This is because eugenics is the safety valve of a centrally planned economy. Central planners like John Maynard Keynes fear a population that is not as meticulously planned as the economy. They fear the unproductive sectors out-breedi
Sunday Adelaja -
Worry is a progressive disease that ruins one’s life
C.S. Lewis -
We all want progress, but if you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
Steven Magee - Curing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
Domestic terrorism is alive and well in the USA and it is masquerading as “Progress”.
Mary Lease -
This is a nation of inconsistencies. The Puritans fleeing from oppression became oppressors. We fought England for our liberty and put chains on four million of blacks. We wiped out slavery and our tariff laws and national banks began a system of white wage slavery worse than the first. Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street. The great common people of this c
Edward G. Ryan -
The question will arise and arise in your day, though perhaps not fully in mine: Which shall rule — wealth or man? Which shall lead — money or intellect? Who shall fill public stations — educated and patriotic freemen or the feudal serfs of corporate capital?
Justin Kyle McFarlane Beau -
Until all processes are progressed, the world will not process meaningful, measurable progress.Progress the process, in order to process, progress. This shall be the responsibility of those who are for the light of universal innovation, as opposed to the benefactors of sectarian division.
Theodore Roosevelt - New Nationalism Speech by Teddy Roosevelt
A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
Ron Brackin -
Progressive. n. One who is unable to distinguish between novelty and enlightenment.
Pascal Bruckner - The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism
Progressive thought is blind when it suggests that there can be no anti-white racism or an anti-semitism among the formerly oppressed or the young people in the projects because they themselves have suffered from this evil. They are the victims; they are exempt from the prejudices that affect the majority of the population. But the reverse is true: racism is multiplying at exponential rates among groups and communities, taboos are collapsing, and everything is explained in terms of physical char
A.E. Samaan -
Racists are everywhere, but historically speaking the real danger came from Progressives that desired the power of the state to engineer society upon a racial lines.
Christie Hefner -
I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.
Jim Hightower -
There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.
Ricky Maye - An Emerging Spirituality
We read about the name Jesus was given at his birth; Immanuel, meaning “God with us”. This God wasn’t content with dwelling in fiction, this God wasn’t content living with the seraphim and this God wasn’t content with bulls and goats anymore. This God wanted to dwell with you, with all of your mess, with all of your failures with all the dirtiness that is you; he wanted to sit with you. Here’s the amazing thing, God doesn’t care if you’re a catholic, a Lutheran, Post modern or Emergent; he wants
Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes
If you can't set a better example for progress, don't show disapproval against the worse tradition!
A.E. Samaan -
The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races.
Timothy J. Keller - The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
Our Western society is so deeply divided between these two approaches (moralism, self-discovery) that hardly anyone can conceive of any other way to live. If you criticize or distance yourself from one, everyone assumes you have chosen to follow the other, because each of these approaches tends to divide the whole world into two basic groups. The moral conformists say: "the immoral people -- the people who 'do their own thing' -- are the problem with the world, and moral people are the solution.
Abhijit Naskar -
The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings.
Jerry Greenfield -
Business can be a source of progressive change.
Theodore Roosevelt -
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
Sunday Adelaja -
Every Nigerian must begin to raise their voice against our societal failures and call them as such at every juncture. In this way we could all bring about a modern, progressive and civilized society.