Progressive Quotations

Ill put my progressive credentials up against anyones.

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.

I'm conservative on some issues, and I'm progressive on others.

I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.

Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy.

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

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 American system.

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.

I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.

I like Akon, I like some of Lil Wayne when he uses that funky voice. Anything progressive.

How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it's a label.

I believe there's about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party. It's called the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

Most activists on the Left believe that they, not only their values, are morally superior to their adversaries. Therefore, coercing people to adhere to 'progressive' values is morally acceptable, even demanded.

Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away

Marx and Engels openly declared that the progressive income tax and the death tax are 'economically untenable' and that they advocated them only because 'they necessitate further inroads' upon the capitalist system and are 'unavoidable' as a means of bringing about socialism.

Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs.

For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.

Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community.

The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

I've been regulated my whole life. We have progressive taxes. It's not a free-market free-for-all. I completely understand that society has a perfectly legitimate right to put in structures and regulations and rules that make it fairer, better, cleaner.

True success is the progressive expansion of happiness. It is the ability to express spontaneous joy and share it with others.

Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive.

For a very small expence the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess ... It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask; by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?

Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live.

As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.

I believe I am a moderate Democrat: I am pro-business and also progressive.

Freedom is the opportunity for right development, for development in accordance with the progressive ideal of life that we have in conscience.

Success is the progressive, timely achievement of your stated goals.

Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you're gay or not it's irrelevant, Scouting values respect.

Lack of rule of law is the main reason Pakistan could not join the ranks of progressive nations.

The way to end corruption is a progressive, policy driven state with proper implementation.

A policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy.

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 unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only persons can work towards them.

I'm a progressive who likes to get things done.

Business can be a source of progressive change.

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

The Labour Party is the sister Party for the Democrats and their progressive views are the ones that we are most aligned with.

I couldn't be more proud of my work as a progressive.

The progressive and liberal mindset believes that to every problem there is a Washington, D.C., solution,

Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new concepts in turn lead to further experiments and observations.

Progressive disclosure defers advanced or rarely used features to a secondary screen, making applications easier to learn and less error-prone.

A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.

That's what the tactics are, Nazi tactics. Nazi tactics are progressive tactics first.

Nobody wants to say that the man [Obama] is a Marxist. Okay, so he's not a Marxist. He's a progressive! This is semantics.

The Nazis learned their propaganda from the progressive movement in the United States.

So many commercial orgs have software where you can come and modify it but they still control everything. And what's controlled is very clearly what's good for their business, or if they're more progressive, their view of what's good for the Internet.

It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

I will burn, but this is a mere incident. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

My commitment to the Bible [is my] source of progressive values.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

If anything's progressive, then we make progress.

Canada must be progressive, and Canada must be a just society.

Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

I'm a liberal. I'm confused when that became a bad word...

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 States.

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

The power of consumer goods . . . has been engendered by the so-called liberal and progressive demands of freedom, and, by appropriating them, has emptied them of their meaning, and changed their nature.

Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.

I watch Glenn Beck and he's taught me well. Progressive is the new word for Communist

The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive taxation to the disadvantage of the well-off, and that they would end up with an arrangement in which taxes are voted by those who do not pay them.

I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.

It's not only progressives who listen to progressive radio.

Individualism is bad for business - though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent.

I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.

The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.

It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry.

[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and 20s.

We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.

War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.

In an American context, let's say gay rights or marriage policy - that's a progressive thing. I understand that in an American context.

No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.

I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.

Progressive rock was happening.

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 can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.

Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.

The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.