Progressivism Quotes - Page 2

• Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community...

  Jane Smiley

  Community, Individualism, Progressive

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 4, 2007.

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• Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of science. It is a defiant and blasphemous faith, not unlike that held by the men who set out to build a "city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven" and who believed that "nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Omnipotence, Cities

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• It's ginned up by the corporate plutocracy as a way of distracting the working-class people that it's screwing. We hamstring our own natural progressivism in this country, and that's really stupid.

  Edward Norton

  Country, Stupid, Class

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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