Progressive Quotes - Page 4

I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.

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.

Jazz is part folk art, part progressive art.

Marx and Engels openly declared that the progressive income tax and the death tax are 'economically untenable' and that they advocated them only because 'they necessitate further inroads' upon the capitalist system and are 'unavoidable' as a means of bringing about socialism.

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.

Most activists on the Left believe that they, not only their values, are morally superior to their adversaries. Therefore, coercing people to adhere to 'progressive' values is morally acceptable, even demanded.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

[People] are alike in a sense that the Bernie Sanders anger at Hillary Clinton was that she was a so-called progressive and yet had managed to make $125 million.

The road to success is always under construction. It is a progressive course, not an end to be reached.

Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

Freedom is the opportunity for right development, for development in accordance with the progressive ideal of life that we have in conscience.

I watch Glenn Beck and he's taught me well. Progressive is the new word for Communist

War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.

Progressive rock was happening.

Individualism is bad for business - though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent.

It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry.

No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.

I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.

For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.

It's not only progressives who listen to progressive radio.

Congress is the great enabler, constitutionally, for progressive society, and it's the great graveyard, the way it's been behaving, against a prosperous society, or another billionaire or two.

The radical ideas of one generation have become the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of reformers, radicals, and idealists who challenged the status quo of their day. They helped change America by organizing movements, pushing for radical reforms, popularizing progressive ideas, and spurring others to action.

The way to end corruption is a progressive, policy driven state with proper implementation.

So many commercial orgs have software where you can come and modify it but they still control everything. And what's controlled is very clearly what's good for their business, or if they're more progressive, their view of what's good for the Internet.