Progressive Quotes

406 quotes by 344 authors

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive. — Alan Ball
I like Akon, I like some of Lil Wayne when he uses that funky voice. Anything progressive. — Afrika Bambaataa
I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. — Jane Addams
I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns. — Jeff Bingaman
The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life. — H. P. Blavatsky
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow… — Christian Nestell Bovee
There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have artists like Brad Paisley and Josh Turner and… — Jason Aldean
I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with… — Vince Cable
We need to reach out to small 'l' liberal voters who have a modern outlook on life, who want a party that is hard-headed on… — Nick Clegg
Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to… — Thomas Paine
Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural selection alone and… — Jacques Monod
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We… — Douglas MacArthur
Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label. — George Meany
The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest… — Hugo Black
Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal. — John Dewey
The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Women and people of color and young people especially are about to have this amazing opportunity to shift the political conversation in this country for… — Sandra Fluke

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