Progressive Quotes - Page 3

We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it's a label.

Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs.

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

[Most progressive in the Democratic Party] won't stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership or take a position against it, you know, which is an absolute assault on our democracy.

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

I'm a liberal. I'm confused when that became a bad word...

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.

It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.

It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.

I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.

I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world.

Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new concepts in turn lead to further experiments and observations.

If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

For the second time in history the Conservatives will have a female prime minster, proving that we are not just the greatest but the most progressive party in Britain.

I like Akon, I like some of Lil Wayne when he uses that funky voice. Anything progressive.

For a very small expence the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess ... It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.