Progressive Quotes

It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

My definition of success is: 1.) The progressive realization of worthy goals 2.) The ability to love and have compassion 3.) To be in touch with the creative source within.

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

The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife.

[Most progressive in the Democratic Party] won't stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership or take a position against it, you know, which is an absolute assault on our democracy.

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record

I'm a liberal. I'm confused when that became a bad word...

Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals.

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

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

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

How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it's a label.

I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives.

But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and 20s.

We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

I'm progressive in some ways, old-fashioned in others. I like it when guys hold the door open and are sweet and thoughtful.

I am sort of anti-hunting. I don't put down what anyone wants to do, but it seems to me that killing a creature for fun is not a progressive idea.

I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.

If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.

Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country.

Keith Ellison is the future of the Democratic Party, the future of the progressive movement.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

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.

Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.

I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world.

The key to the defeat and eventually the end of imperialism as a a whole is the unity of all socialist countries and progressive forces in capitalist countries.

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

A generation ago [the Democratic Party] stood for progressive change. Now they defend every federal program as if each were sacred. They have become the most conservative force in American politics.

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.

If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.

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.

I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black monoculture. I don't want to live in an elitist, progressive monoculture.

We urgently need an integrated progressive political agenda if we are to have foundations for a more equitable, sustainable, caring world.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

The 'public' artist confirms the world that we already accept, though he inevitably widens our experience of it; his method is one of research, the progressive uncovering of detail.

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.

The American people, whether you are Democrat, independent, Republican, progressive, conservative, do not believe corporations are people or that corporations should be able to buy elections.

[To] the progressive mind, the very concept of "the enemy" is obsolescent: there are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven't yet accommodated.

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.

The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.