Progressive Quotes - Page 27

• 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.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Successful, Progressive Taxation, Names

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• It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.

  Will Rogers

  Cities, Chicago, Shooting

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• I believe there's an emerging American majority for progressive economic change.

  Bill de Blasio

  Believe, Majority, Economic

  "Bill de Blasio on the Crisis of Inequality and the Blind Spots of the Democratic Party". Interview with Eric Alterman, www.thenation.com. May 14, 2015.

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• 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.

  Dennis Prager

  Believe, People, Activist

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• I dont believe in labels. I want to do the best I can, all the time. I want to be progressive without getting both feet off the ground at the same time. I want to be prudent without having my mind closed to anything that is new or different. I have often said that I was proud that I was a free man first and an American second, and a public servant third and a Democrat fourth, in that order, and I guess as a Democrat, if I had to takeplace a label on myself, I would want to be a progressive who is prudent.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Men, Feet

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.368, Best Books on

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• I own no TV stations, or Radio Stations or Newspapers. But I feel that people need to be educated as to what is going on, and to understand the connection between the news media and the instruments of repression in Amerika. All I have is my voice, my spirit and the will to tell the truth. But I sincerely ask, those of you in the Black media, those of you in the progressive media, those of you who believe in true freedom, to publish this statement and to let people know what is happening. We have no voice, so you must be the voice of the voiceless.

  Assata Shakur

  Believe, Media, Voice

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• There is nothing conservative about bailing out Wall Street. Likewise, there is nothing progressive about billion dollar loans to millionaires to build solar panels.

  Rand Paul

  Wall, Dollars, Conservative

  "Transcript for Rand Paul Rides Filibuster Popularity to CPAC", abcnews.go.com.

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• Justice is that system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes the group strong and progressive rather than weak and retrogressive whereas injustice is a system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes a nation weak and retrogressive rather than strong and progressive.

  Thomas Nixon Carver

  Strong, Justice, Groups

  Thomas Nixon Carver (1915). “Essays in Social Justice”, Harvard university press

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• I was sort of like a kid in a candy store, realizing it was fun making beats without the perceived burden that every track I did had to be a some progressive sample masterpiece. It was nice to blow off steam and work on those songs. For me, that’s what 'The Outsider' was about in general: forget everything, I’m just gonna follow my own music, and make the music I want to make.

  DJ Shadow

  Song, Fun, Nice

  FaceBook post by DJ Shadow from Mar 06, 2015

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• We are here to change. We are here to grow, develop and unfold. We are progressive beings that have infinite capacity

  Michael Beckwith

  Secret, Infinite, Capacity

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• A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising from the progressive intellectual development of man.

  John William Draper

  Men, Views, Intellectual

  John William Draper (1875). “History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...”, p.6, New York, D. Appleton

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• The libertarian good society lies... in the maximum dispersion of property compatible with effective production or, as process, in progressive reconciliation of conflicts between equality and efficiency. Such process involves increasing dispersion both of wealth among persons and families and of proximate productional control among enterprises or firms.

  Henry Calvert Simons

  Wisdom, Lying, Politics

  Henry Calvert Simons (1948). “Economic Policy for a Free Society”

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• God must have been engaged from the beginning, and must now be engaged in progressive development, and infinite as God is, he must have been less powerful in the past than he is today.... We may be certain that, through self-effort, the inherent and innate powers of God have been developed to a God-like degree. Thus he has become God.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Powerful, Past, Self

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• A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

  Karl Marx

  Wisdom, Income, Politics

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.84, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The progressive and liberal mindset believes that to every problem there is a Washington, D.C., solution.

  Jeb Bush

  Believe, Problem, Mindset

  "5 Things Jeb Bush Just Revealed About His Likely 2016 Run" by Shushannah Walshe, abcnews.go.com. February 4, 2015.

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• The campaign to put a woman on the $20 bill has narrowed the choices down to four finalists. The four finalists are Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Flo from the Progressive Insurance ads.

  Conan O'Brien

  Choices, Campaigns, Four

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

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Wisdom, Movement, Progressive Society

  Ancient Law ch. 5 (1861)

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• With conglomerates selling companies to liquidators, who close down plants and move to non-union areas, it's about time progressive union leaders step in to stop such job-losing tactics... ESOP should become a part of future bargaining packages!

  Tom Colicchio

  Wisdom, Jobs, Moving

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• Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism is sanity. Religion is medieval. Atheism is modern.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Men, Atheism, Superstitions

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• To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.

  George Trumbull Ladd

  Past, Views, Church

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• The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character.

  Helen Keller

  Character, Support, Democracy

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• Method means primarily a way or path of transit. From this we are to understand that the first idea of method is a progressive transition from one step to another in any course. If in the right course, it will be the true method; if in the wrong, we cannot hope to progress.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mean, Ideas, Progress

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• Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  War, Distance, Class

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon

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• At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Persistence, Past, Men

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• When we were starting out, there was no "label" as progressive rock - it didn't exist ... so we were just a rock band.

  Phil Ehart

  Rocks, Labels, Band

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 25, 2015.

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