Progressive Quotes - Page 26

• If you work through the existing structures you are going to be corrupted. By working through political system that poisons the atmosphere, even the progressive organizations, you can see it even nowadays in the US, where people on the "Left" are all caught in the electoral campaign and get into fierce arguments about should we support this third party candidate or that third party candidate. This is a sort of little piece of evidence that suggests that when you get into working through electoral politics you begin to corrupt your ideals.

  Howard Zinn

  Party, Organization, People

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.

  Gary Kemp

  Art, Rocks, Glam Rock

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease, and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's every day.

  Melina Kanakaredes

  Alzheimer's, People, Age

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• Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.

  Bill Moyers

  Struggle, Ordinary, Citizens

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• If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.

  Jane Smiley

  Horse, Ignorance, Years

  Jane Smiley (2014). “A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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• 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.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Tradition, Ancestor

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• I will tell you is the antidote to [Donald] Trump is a very strong progressive agenda that says, yes, I know you`re angry. And you know what? You should be angry because you`re working longer hours for low wages. You have a right to be bitter and you have a right to be that.

  Bernie Sanders

  Strong, Wages, Agendas

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• From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music.

  Tony Levin

  Kings, Musical, Trying

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• I have always firmly believed that every director should be judged solely by their work, and not by their work based on their gender. Hollywood is supposedly a community of forward thinking and progressive people yet this horrific situation for women directors persists. Gender discrimination stigmatizes our entire industry. Change is essential. Gender neutral hiring is essential.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Thinking, Gender Gap, People

  "Kathryn Bigelow: We Must End Gender Discrimination in Hollywood". time.com. May 12, 2015.

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• 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.

  Tammy Baldwin

  Winning, Naysayers, Can't Win

  "Tammy Baldwin Announces Senate Run In Wisconsin" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.

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• If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.

  Paul Bremer

  Years, Community, Today

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• Historically the mainstream media has never been particularly friendly to any socially progressive ideas.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Media, Ideas, Friendly

  "CNN Reliable Sources", www.cnn.com. January 26, 2003.

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• As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.

  Cory Booker

  Community, Movement, Social

  "A Great American Tradition: Community Organizing" by Cory Booker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2008.

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• Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and moon, night and day, rain, sea, the crops, the flowering tree, all these things were transparent. They spoke to people not of themselves but only of Him who made them. Nature was symbolic. But the progressive degradation of humans led them further and further from this truth. Nature became opaque.

  Thomas Merton

  Nature, Rain, Moon

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• In the United States, and to only slightly lesser degree in all the other rich and economically progressive Western countries, public debate has at all times been dominated by the adherents of a "free" economy.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Country, United States, Degrees

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• History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Two, Progress

  Zedong Mao, Mao Tse-Tung (1965). “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung”, Pergamon

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• Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.

  William Butler Yeats

  Journey, Numbers, Progress

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• Until self-effacing men return again to spiritual leadership, we may expect a progressive deterioration in the quality of popular Christianity year after year till we reach the point where the grieved Holy Spirit withdraws - like the Shekinah from the temple.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Men, Self

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• Jazz is part folk art, part progressive art.

  Mulgrew Miller

  Art, Jazz, Folks

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

  Stephanie Miller

  Radio

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 22, 2006.

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• The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

  Ralph Adams Cram

  War, Revelations, Disillusionment

  RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

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• If you're a progressive, if you're driving a Prius, or you're shopping green or you're looking for organic, you should probably be a semi-vegetarian.

  Mark Bittman

  Shopping, Green, Driving

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• The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Caring, Parent, Becoming

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• The essence and the glory of the free market is that individual firms and businesses, competing on the market, provide an ever-changing orchestration of efficient and progressive goods and services: continually improving products and markets, advancing technology, cutting costs, and meeting changing consumer demands as swiftly and as efficiently as possible.

  Murray Rothbard

  Cutting, Technology, Essence

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1978). “For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto”, p.242, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The political left, which holds itself as progressive, rational and fact-based, is becoming an enemy of academic inquiry, and a practitioner of thought control on a wide variety of issues. Increasingly, from the left's perspective, there is just one acceptable viewpoint.

  David Limbaugh

  Issues, Perspective, Political

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