Progressive Quotes
406 quotes by 344 authors
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I think that people, despite my law enforcement background, view me as taking these consistently progressive stands, and I think that, philosophically, there is a…
— Eric Holder
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It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once a day, in…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which…
— John Krasinski
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If someone is going to permit me to make a publication that is politically and culturally progressive and not tell me to put their favorite…
— Tibor Kalman
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Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society…
— Walter Lippmann
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If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are…
— Jane Smiley
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
— Ralph Adams Cram
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In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace requires that all ... strive for a progressive and concerted…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.
— Thomas de Quincey
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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…
— Robert W. Welch, Jr.
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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,…
— Adnan Pachachi
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A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.
— Will Rogers
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I believe that there should be a very much heavier progressive tax on very large incomes, a tax which should increase in a very marked…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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I dont believe in labels. I want to do the best I can, all the time. I want to be progressive without getting both feet…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Christ did not come to civilize. He came to save. Civilization is not the solution; it does not destroy the works of the devil. All…
— Arno C. Gaebelein
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Unkindness to anything means an injustice to that thing. If I am unkind to you I do you an injustice, or wrong you in some…
— George Washington Carver
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Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you're gay or not it's irrelevant, Scouting values respect.
— Bear Grylls
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The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation…
— Vladimir Lenin
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Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we commonly encounter in…
— Hooman Majd
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