Progressive Quotes - Page 29

• This contest between the secular and religious visions of government is really the main choice to be made. It won't be decided in one election, but it is a basic choice between an open and progressive Iraq and one that is backward and continues to fall behind.

  Adnan Pachachi

  Religious, Fall, Iraq

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• I didnt set out with the notion of running for elective office; it sort of grew over time. And I honestly at times questioned if progressive change can be effected through elected office.

  Bill de Blasio

  Running, Office, Grew

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

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• A great character, founded on the living rock of principle is, in fact, not a solitary phenomenon, to be at once perceived, limited, and described. It is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not merely an immediate, but a continuous, progressive, and never-ending agency. It survives the man who possessed it; survives his age,--and perhaps, his country, his language.

  Edward Everett

  Country, Character, Men

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.576

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• It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.

  Robert W. Welch, Jr.

  Income, Firsts, Program

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• But the Progressive Conservative is very definitely liberal Republican. These are people who are moderately conservative on economic matters, and in the past have been moderately liberal, even sometimes quite liberal on social policy matters.

  Stephen Harper

  Past, People, Matter

  Stephen Harper's Speech to a June 1997 Montreal meeting of the Council for National Policy, www.theglobeandmail.com. December 15, 2005.

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• In our country there's never been a successful progressive struggle that did not have a soundtrack, whether it was the civil rights movement, workers' rights movement, women's rights movement. There's got to be songs at the barricades, and those are the kinds of songs that I try to write.

  Tom Morello

  Country, Song, Struggle

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress.

  June Jordan

  Law, Justice, United States

  June Jordan (1992). “Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union”, Pantheon

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• The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Discovery, Meditation, Intuition

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. Any nation that is progressive is led by people who have had the privilege of studying.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, People, Citizens

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. April 2001.

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• Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.

  Benjamin Graham

  White, Gold, Use

  "World Commodities and World Currencies". Book by Benjamin Graham. Chapter IX, Commodities, Gold, Credit as Money, p. 100, 1944.

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• If the Russian word "perestroika" has easily entered the international lexicon, this is due to more than just interest in what is going on in the Soviet Union. Now the whole world needs restructuring, i.e. progressive development, a fundamental change.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  World, Unions, Needs

  "Perestroika: New Thinking For Our Country and the World". Book by Mikhail Gorbachev, 1987.

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• Revolutionary practice in any field of human existence develops by itself if one comprehends the contradictions in every new process; it consists in siding with those forces which act in the direction of progressive development.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Practice, Development, Fields

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive solution.

  Erich Fromm

  Character, Successful, Battle

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.387, Open Road Media

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• Great problems are now being handled, keeping every thinking man in suspense; the unity or multiplicity of human races; the creation of man 1,000 years or 1,000 centuries ago; the fixity of species, or the slow and progressive transformation of one species into another; the eternity of matter; the idea of a God unnecessary: such are some of the questions that humanity discusses nowadays.

  Louis Pasteur

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  Address at the "Sorbonne Scientific Soirée" on April 07, 1864. "The Life of Pasteur". Book by René Vallery-Radot, translated by R .L. Devonshire, p. 140, archive.org. 1902.

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• I have a terrible time during elections. I am way too politically involved. I absolutely never argue politics with anyone, as it makes me crazy and full of judgment and hostility. I have two very conservative friends, whom I cherish and would entrust my life to; we avoid politics like the plague. So in a certain way, it limits how completely we let ourselves know each other, but this is just the way it is and it is the best we can do. And I am secretly convinced that God is a progressive Democrat.

  Anne Lamott

  Crazy, Two, Way

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• Once you run and once you win with an unabashed progressive feminist standard, then it becomes easier for everybody else who's running.

  Christine Pelosi

  Running, Winning, Feminist

  "Christine Pelosi on the ‘Barbara Boxer Standard’ of Feminist Leadership". Interview with Emily Crockett, rewire.news. January 9, 2015.

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• When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.

  Aldo Leopold

  Growing Up, Children, Mind

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.151, Library of America

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• We've been criticizing these superficial aspects, like whether we are all more distracted. We really need to articulate a defense, a critique, that merges awareness of the technology with a more traditional, progressive, left-wing critique of the market.

  Astra Taylor

  Technology, Wings, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.

  Johann Lamont

  Causes

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• In meditation we get a sense of the countless selves within ourselves, the different forms they take. Those that don't seem positive or helpful we push aside. Those that seem progressive we enjoy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Meditation

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• Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Success, Goal, Realization

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• I think people recognize that I'm not a partisan Republican that I'm someone who is moderate, and that my views are progressive.

  Mitt Romney

  Thinking, Views, People

  "Romney in 2002: I’m 'Moderate,' 'Progressive,' and 'Not a Partisan Republican'". www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2011.

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• Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Political, Important, Might

  "Of political correctness and referendums" by Marcus Brigstocke, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2005.

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• A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Wings, Numbers, Groups

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• I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in a way which was essential to the realization of Communism in the future. Regarded as a splendid attempt, without which ultimate success would have been very improbable, Bolshevism deserves the gratitude and admiration of all the progressive part of mankind.

  Bertrand Russell

  Gratitude, Believe, Men

  Bertrand Russell (1972). “Bolshevism: practice and theory”, Ayer Co Pub

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