Progressive Quotes

406 quotes by 344 authors

What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes… — Douglas Rushkoff
It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal… — Thomas Moore
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a… — HÃ©lder CÃ¢mara
Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can… — Spencer W. Kimball
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them â€” the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities.… — H. P. Blavatsky
That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book,… — Mary Ann Shaffer
As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I can hear you for blocks, I can… — William H. Gass
Life is progressive, no matter what our intentions. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed… — Mark Twain
This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of… — Michel Houellebecq
Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust. — Alan Moore
We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory… — Robertson Davies
The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established… — Ivan Illich
There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact -… — David Foster Wallace
Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have… — David Foster Wallace
The music defied classification. If I had been writing a review of the show, I would have labeled it progressive, guitar-driven rock â€™nâ€™ roll. But… — Tiffanie DeBartolo
The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever… — Mark Twain
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection,… — Frederic Bastiat

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