Progressive Quotes
406 quotes by 344 authors
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My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.
— Josh Hartnett
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You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.
— Jim Hightower
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There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our…
— Jim Hightower
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against…
— Erica Jong
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Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United…
— Jonathan Kozol
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I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine'…
— Anne Lamott
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Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
— Christopher Lasch
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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that…
— C.S. Lewis
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Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many…
— Michelle Malkin
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If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough.…
— Michelle Malkin
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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
— Don Marquis
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My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.
— Joni Mitchell
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The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity.
— Moby
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Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought…
— Alan Moore
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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
— Earl Nightingale
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Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be…
— Rick Perry
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Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer's epidemic is here now and millions more families will be touched by…
— Jeanne Phillips
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Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I…
— Colin Powell
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They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person,…
— David Rockefeller
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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…
— Zoe Saldana
Who Wrote These Progressive Quotes
344 authors contributed a total of 406 Progressive Quotes, led by these top contributors: