The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“If something is not progressive, stop it, and the best proof is our sadness.” — P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar Copy Share Image
War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Democrats want to force their ideas on states that refuse to adopt their progressive, failed policies. — Tommy Tuberville Copy Share Image
My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“In a word, my work is digressive, and it is progressive too, — and at the same time.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Nazis learned their propaganda from the progressive movement in the United States. — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Women in America cannot achieve our full economic and personal fulfillment as long as the concentration of wealth and power in the… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
A majority of Americans support Social Security and Medicare, a progressive tax system and a government that regulates business in the public… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I must say the geographically small State of Kerala has been traditionally influencing the discourse of the country with progressive ideas and… — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music,… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
I'm willing to fight for Social Security, Medicare, student loans, U.S. jobs, equal pay, progressive taxation and full employment. — Alan Grayson Copy Share Image
I'm so grateful for Living the Questions. These progressive voices offer less rigid and more expansive approaches to Christian faith, and make… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
This was a very progressive group of clergy who foresaw the race riots that were going to take place when Dr. King… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The American people must make a fundamental decision. Do we continue the 40-year decline of our middle class and the growing gap… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
When we came out, the kind of music that was popular was Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice In Chains, all that stuff. That… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the future might be and look… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
I think what drives me is a sense of, well, who is going to do it if you don't do it? I… — Eugene Puryear Copy Share Image
We don't have much wisdom about the second half when things really open up and end up looking a lot more progressive.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
De-Christianizing America has been high on the progressive agenda, and, thanks to the government (especially the federal courts), it has been a… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Vacations for wage earners have proved both popular with workers and profitable for employers. Unfortunately, the majority of large employers have not… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
I grew up outside of Seattle, and have lived here my whole life, and I think that there is a culture of… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I can say that I'm a feminist and I try to be progressive and all that stuff. But I when I'm tired… — Rob Delaney Copy Share Image
If you work through the existing structures you are going to be corrupted. By working through political system that poisons the atmosphere,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus… — William James Copy Share Image
I had a very progressive drama teacher who would buy all the plays that were in New York and bring them to… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract. — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured. — Rick James Copy Share Image
There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds. — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
