Progressive Quotes - Page 16

• I reluctantly concluded that there was no way for me to help bring into being the Muslim culture I'd dreamed of, the progressive, irreverent, skeptical, argumentative, playful and unafraid culture which is what I've always understood as freedom.... Actually Existing Islam ... which makes literalism a weapon and redescription a crime, will never let the likes of me in.

  Salman Rushdie

  Islam, Culture, Weapons

  "Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor'". Address at Columbia University, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

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• Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy.

  Jim DeMint

  Social, Policy, Mess

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• All countries must be governed by the modern people; they must be governed by the progressive people; they must be governed by those who believe in the reason and science; they must be governed by the compassionate and just, by the ethical and honest, by the nonviolent and peaceful people; they must be governed by the libertarians; they must be governed by the people who believe in the enlightenment and who refuse to shape the society based on some childish religious stories!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Religious, Believe

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• I always believed that social science was a progressive profession because it was the powerful who had the most to hide about how the world actually worked and if you could show how the world actually worked it would always have a de-masking and a subversive effect on the powerful. I don't think that's quite true, but it seems to me it's not bad as a point of departure anyway.

  James C. Scott

  Powerful, Thinking, Departure

  "An Interview with James C. Scott | Harry G. West and Celia Plender". Gastronomica Interview, gastronomica.org. March 14, 2017.

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• We need to reject not only outdated fossil-fuel technology, but also an outdated economic system and an outdated corporatist political system. The progressive view is that we are smart enough and ethical enough to not have to be subservient to corporations. We can create our own resilient, localized communities.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Smart, Technology, Views

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Rhythms, beats, etc., are fundamentally central to my creative drive: my first instrument was the drums, nearly every band I have been involved in or at the helm of, is driven by rhythm, my band is driven entirely by rhythm, machine rhythm, and the purpose of the rock instrumentation is literally to speak the beats, to emulate the rhythms with guitars and bass, with very little articulation, and without being 'progressive'.

  Justin Broadrick

  Rocks, Guitar, Creative

  Interview with Justinas Mikulskis, secretthirteen.org.

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• The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Expression, Soul, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.349, Grove Press

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• I'm also for gay marriage, because I say they have every right to be just as miserable as the rest of us. Love is bigger than government. And Texas, by the way, has a very progressive law about gay couples adopting kids. We just won't let them get married. So that's not common sense.

  Kinky Friedman

  Couple, Kids, Gay

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. October 10.

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• The Islamic world is obsessed with the notion of strong leaders. This is a mistake. We don't need powerful leaders, but rather unconventional, progressive thinkers with the courage to open our minds.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Strong, Powerful, Mistake

  "They Live in a Bleak, Devastated Universe". Interview with Erich Follath and Romain Leick, www.spiegel.de. November 14, 2005.

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• A lot of my father's generation were thinking about communism and had deep liberal and progressive connections. He never admitted whether he was a card-carrying communist party member but I think its possible.

  Anne Waldman

  Father, Party, Thinking

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I think it's important for us to recognize that although historically black communities have been very progressive with respect to issues of race and with respect to struggles for racial equality, that does not necessarily translate into progressive positions on gender issues, progressive positions on issues of sexuality and in the latter 1990s we have to recognize the intersectionality, the interconnectedness of all of these institutions and attitudes.

  Angela Davis

  Attitude, Struggle, Thinking

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category.I thought it was so progressive.

  Viola Davis

  Winning, African American, Want

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• I try to produce whatever I like, it doesn't really matter what it is. It could be Progressive, it could be deeper, it doesn't matter to me. I produce whatever I like and I hope people enjoy it.

  Nicky Romero

  People, Trying, Matter

  Source: www.thissongslaps.com

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• The notion of a healthy society, of capable people who are able to enjoy life, arose in the liberal, middle-class, leftist and non-religious segments of society. The euthanasia idea came from neither the radical right-wing nor the conservative corner. It was and remains part of the modern age and progressive thought.

  Gotz Aly

  Religious, Class, Wings

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• Here's the thing about politics: It's not an expression of your moral purity and your ethics and your probity and your fond dreams of some utopian future. Progressive people constantly fail to get this.

  Tony Kushner

  Dream, Expression, People

  "Tony Kushner, Radical Pragmatist". Interview with Ben Greenman, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2003.

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• The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe.

  Albert Camus

  Distance, Reality, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.22, Vintage

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• I just play to progressive audiences. You know, if they're watching Discovery Channel, History Channel, that kind of thing, "Monty Python" have already laid the groundwork. They're known around the world. People like that kind of surrealist, left-field humor, and that's what I do. And "Saturday Night Live," a lot of American humor. "The Simpsons," above all, the weird, left-field humor, which I love. And sardonic. So that's all I'm doing. I find that audience, and they're in every developed country around the world.

  Eddie Izzard

  Country, Night, Python

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• Putting labels on people is so counter-productive. Most of us on some issues could be considered conservative, on other issues could be considered progressive, on other issues might be thought of as being moderate, on other issues might be thought of as being rather forthright.

  Tony Abbott

  Issues, People, Labels

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• Acting as a career is a long term thing and that work is kind of progressive and you can build on a career. It's part of the great tradition of the theater to me.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Careers, Long, Acting

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Idea that all the beats are wildly liberal and progressive is ridiculous. You have people thinking for themselves and having certain affinities because of their upbringing and who their family are, their own people who were close to them who fought in these wars and so on. It's complicated. But they had that ability to continue the conversation.

  Anne Waldman

  War, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I'm not a political progressive, but I consider myself a progressive person. What makes me a progressive, in my opinion, is the fact that I try to improve myself and by large improve the world that I'm in - in the smallest way possible.

  Trevor Noah

  Political, Trying, World

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• What brings me the most joy is stories about progressive thinking. When a mother or father accepts their child for whoever they are... when goodness prevails... blah blah blah. I'm a cheese ball.

  Jinkx Monsoon

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: fierth.com

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• I have nothing to fear from serious social studies of science, and I hope that my philosophy will help progressive science policies while showing that the most modern views of science are ignorant and regressive, even if they are accompanied by a leftist-sounding rhetoric.

  Mario Bunge

  Philosophy, Views, Ignorant

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• Success is the progressive, timely achievement of your stated goals.

  Charles J. Givens

  Goal, Achievement, Timely

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• The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this the progressive "condensation" of thought. ... Steps really sink from sight. An advanced thinker sees the relations of his topics is such masses and so instantaneously that when he comes to explain to younger minds it is often hard ... Bowditch, who translated and annotated Laplace's Méchanique Céleste, said that whenever his author prefaced a proposition by the words "it is evident," he knew that many hours of hard study lay before him.

  William James

  Science, Sight, Mind

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