Progressive Quotes - Page 15

• 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.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  States, Discourse, Collapse

  Edgar Allan Poe (1856). “The Select Works: With a Memoir of the Author. ¬The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym”, p.269

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• Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon his freedom and a limitation of his right to make the most of himself in order that he may rise in the scale of the social and economic order in which he lives. The notion that all human beings born into this world enter at birth into a definite social and economic classification, in which classification they must remain permanently through life, is wholly false and fatal to a progressive civilization.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Life, Order, Civilization

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• Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy mockery as genuine subversion and snarky mimesis as originality. It would be more accurate to describe our golden age of political comedy as the peak output of a lucrative corporate plantation whose chief export is a cheap and powerful opiate for progressive angst and rage.

  Steve Almond

  Powerful, Political, Lazy

  "The Joke’s on You" by Steve Almond, The Baffler, No. 20, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 19, 2012.

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• The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs of our earth's history. There should be no real conflict between science, which is the search for truth, and Christ's teachings, which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God from creation that the Christian is faced with an irreconcilable situation.

  Wendell Phillips

  Christian, Truth, Real

  Wendell Phillips (1955). “Qataban and Sheba: Exploring the Ancient Kingdoms on the Biblical Spice Routes of Arabia”

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• Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

  Henry George

  Children, Clothes, Progress

  Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.

  Janos Kadar

  Selfish, Party, Mean

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• Anthony Weiner deserves to be supported and hopefully he will be mayor of New York one day. I'm serious. He is a Democrat [who] actually fights for the things liberals and progressive and rational people care about. I don't know why he's being thrown under the bus. He hasn't done any - he hasn't broke any laws.

  Janeane Garofalo

  New York, Fighting, Law

  "Actress defends Weiner, says 'everyone lies about sex'" by Bob Cusack, thehill.com. June 11, 2011.

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• Seattle’s Moraine not only make Washington State proud, but also the whole American progressive music scene joyful. ... It’s simply an impressive dead on eleven song tour de force. ... GET THIS! Highly Recommended!

  Lee Henderson

  Song, Proud, Washington State

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• The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.

  Thomas Berry

  Destiny, Earth, Humans

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• It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.

  Moncure D. Conway

  World, Machinery, Darling

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• The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Art, Journey, Men

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.135

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• The inner change, justification, is effected at the moment of salvation. The outer change in the believer's daily walk, sanctification, continues throughout life. But the progressive work of sanctification is only fully effective when the radical, inner transformation of justification is realized and appropriated by faith.

  Neil T Anderson

  Transformation, Moments, Salvation

  Neil T. Anderson, Joanne Anderson (1993). “Daily in Christ: a devotional”, Harvest House Pub

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• It is not for nothing that Skaldin in one part of his book quotes Adam Smith: we have seen that both his views and the character of his arguments in many respects repeat the theses of that
  great ideologist of the progressive bourgeoisie.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Book, Character, Views

  "The Heritage We Renounce". Collected Works, Volume 2, pp. 491 - 534, www.marxists.org.

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• The continuous war between the reactionary and the progressive forces determine the degree of mankind's happiness.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, War, Degrees

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• The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife.

  Crystal Eastman

  Men, Wife, Lasts

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In an American context, let's say gay rights or marriage policy - that's a progressive thing. I understand that in an American context.

  Trevor Noah

  Gay, Rights, Policy

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The stereotype of aging as a progressive loss of function is generally true only for people who stop functioning.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Loss, People, Aging

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• War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Instruments

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• You need to recognize and sweep aside certain weaknesses which stand between you and your goals. Your persistence develops into a respected, proved, progressive power.

  Napoleon Hill

  Persistence, Goal, Weakness

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• Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creativity, Soul, Never Quit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1404, Delphi Classics

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• Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Errors, Truth Is, Residual

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1983). “Synergetics 2: Further Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.114, The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding. Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.

  Ajahn Brahm

  Love, Beautiful, Letting Go

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• We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.

  Booker T. Washington

  Intelligent, Hands, Ideas

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• One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Cheerful, Reason Why, Conflict

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• Vacations for wage earners have proved both popular with workers and profitable for employers. Unfortunately, the majority of large employers have not yet followed the example set by a number of progressive corporations. I don't know of a single company that has abandoned vacations for wage earners after having tried the experiment. But I do know many that are delighted with the fruits they have gathered. Under some of the plans vacations with pay must be earned by good behavior, punctuality, etc.... The best results have come where the treatment has been regarded as most liberal.

  B. C. Forbes

  Vacation, Numbers, Majority

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