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“Are people who want this kind of progressive change not turning up at polling stations? Are they not voting for progressive representatives? It's hard to put your finger on why we are where we are.”

People Want Kind Hard Fingers Voting Stations Progressive Representatives Polling Not Voting Progressive Change

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“I hope progressive ways of thinking will permeate the "mainstream" more and more in the coming years. Goddess knows we have endured a very long spell (thirty plus years) of regressive thinking and hyper conservativism dominating our culture and national discourse. It necessitates risk taking and rule breaking by people in all walks of life to swing that pendulum back though.”

People Thinking Knows Way Years Long Culture Walks Risk Thirty Plus Progressive Spells Mainstream Swings Goddess Discourse Way Of Thinking Risk-taking Hyper Dominating Walks Of Life Pendulums

Author:Ani DiFranco

“Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.”

Truth Is Errors Progressive Residual

Book:Synergetics 2: Further Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

Source: Synergetics 2: Further Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

“That which distinguishes the Soviet system both from other national systems and from the progressive schools of other countries is the conscious control of every educational procedure by reference to a single and comprehensive social purpose.”

Country School Purpose Social Conscious Educational Progressive Soviet Other Countries Procedures Comprehensive

Book:The Later Works of John Dewey 1927-1928: Essays, Reviews, Miscellany, and

Source: The Later Works of John Dewey 1927-1928: Essays, Reviews, Miscellany, and

“You need to recognize and sweep aside certain weaknesses which stand between you and your goals. Your persistence develops into a respected, proved, progressive power.”

Needs Certain Goal Weakness Persistence Progressive

Author:Napoleon Hill

“Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.”

Has Beens Struggle Rich Share Citizens Benefits Ordinary Progressive Privileged Free Society Ordinary Citizens

Author:Bill Moyers

“War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.”

War Instruments Progressive

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy.”

Social Security Policy Mess Progressive Social Security

Author:Jim DeMint

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

Goal Achievement Progressive Timely

Author:Charles J. Givens

“I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black monoculture. I don't want to live in an elitist, progressive monoculture.”

Want Kind Black Wealthy Progressive Elitist Monoculture

Author:Richard Benjamin

“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.”

Ifs Stills Views Internet Progressive Controlled Software

Author:Mitchell Baker

“The American people must make a fundamental decision. Do we continue the 40-year decline of our middle class and the growing gap between the very rich and everyone else, or do we fight for a progressive economic agenda that creates jobs, raises wages, protects the environment and provides health care for all?”

“It is critical to have a sound understanding of traditional culinary principles before attempting to push boundaries in cuisine. Larousse Gastronomique helps me execute the progressive cooking we do at Alinea.”

Helping Understanding Sound Principles Cooking Critical Boundaries Traditional Help Me Culinary Progressive Attempting Cuisine

Author:Grant Achatz

“Every man must be a part of a progressive revolution at least once in his lifetime! This will leave him great honour and great memories for the future.”

Men Memories Revolution Lifetime Every Man Progressive Honour Great Memories

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!”

Ifs Support Revolution Progressive Reactionaries

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Human history's the most funny and yet the most tragic discovery will be the discovery of the religious people that all religions are man-made! And this childish discovery will enable the pious to make an intellectual jump in upwards direction. The devout will turn into a progressive man and the history will flow faster in the progressive direction.”

People Men Humans Made Turns Religious Intellectual Discovery Flow Faster Tragic Progressive Human History Pious Most Funny

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I think like a lot of people in this country I want to see a vision. And, again, that would be true of candidates on all levels. It's time to see a clear, bold vision for progressive economic change.”

People Thinking Want Country Would Be Change Levels Vision Clear Economic Being True Candidates Progressive Economic Change

Author:Bill de Blasio

“Europe has discarded its children. A bit triumphantly. I remember that when I was studying in one country the clinics that did abortions then prepared everything to send it to cosmetic factories. Makeup made with the blood of innocents. And this was something to brag about, because it was progressive.”

Children Made Country Remember Bits Study Blood Europe Prepared Abortion Makeup Progressive Factories Cosmetics Discarded Brag Clinic

Author:Pope Francis

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

People Art Progressive Emancipation Progressive Society

Book:Women, Culture & Politics

Source: Women, Culture & Politics

“My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the final years before everything changed. When I grew up in Kabul, it couldn't be mistaken for Beirut or Tehran, as it was still in a country that's essentially religious and conservative, but it was suprisingly progressive and liberal.”

Way Years Stills Different Country Religious Memories Changed Grew Grew Up Finals Conservative Progressive Mistaken Tehran Beirut Kabul

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of additions. With me, picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture, then I destroy it. But in the long run nothing is lost; the red that I took away from one place turns up somewhere else.”

Long Running Moving Used Turns Lost Stage Red Destruction Each Day Something New Progressive Long Runs Somewhere Else Completion

Author:Pablo Picasso

“To be a true Progressive it is not sufficient to stand up and say that one belives in what has been promulgated as progressive principles. One must be progressive in heart and active in promoting the progressive principles of today, tomorrow and always. There is no resting point, for humanity is ever ascending to a higher and better goal.”

Heart Has Beens Today Humanity Goal Principles Higher Tomorrow Active Sufficient Progressive Promoting Belive Ascending

Book:Banking and Currency and the Money Trust

Source: Banking and Currency and the Money Trust

“The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a word his growth into spiritual consciousness by the development of his ordinary ignorant natural being into an illumined divine nature, this is for Indian thinking the significance of life and the aim of human existance.”

“Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.”

Narrative Subtle Progressive Momentum Resonance Mosaics Thematic

Author:David Shields

“I reluctantly concluded that there was no way for me to help bring into being the Muslim culture I'd dreamed of, the progressive, irreverent, skeptical, argumentative, playful and unafraid culture which is what I've always understood as freedom.... Actually Existing Islam ... which makes literalism a weapon and redescription a crime, will never let the likes of me in.”

Way Helping Culture Crime Weapons Understood Islam Likes Progressive Skeptical Unafraid Irreverent

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant.”

Thinking Should Ideas Certain Belief Growth Limits Progressive Permit Dogma New Ideas Anchors Stagnant

Author:Kevin Smith

“It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.”

Should Humans Made Strong Justice Human Nature Ethics Privilege Conviction Servant Progressive Conception Unjust Conservatism Realist

Book:Man's Nature and His Communities: Essays on the Dynamics and Enigmas of Man's Personal and Social Existence

Source: Man's Nature and His Communities: Essays on the Dynamics and Enigmas of Man's Personal and Social Existence

“Unlike yellow and brown people, the white does not usually believe he can get attention from matter or objects. ... The white goes further. He often believes he can get attention only from whites and that yellow and brown people's attention is worthless. Thus the yellow and brown races are not very progressive, but, by and large, saner.”

People Believe Doe Matter White Race Attention Objects Brown Progressive Yellow Worthless

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“I had been brought up in an elementary school where, my first few grades, I remember being specifically told that my teachers were gay. I was just that age and that was just how it was, and my parents were very... You know, that's how I was raised. Like super-progressive.”

Knows Firsts Age School Remember Parent Teacher Gay Raised Grades Progressive Elementary School

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.”

Years Children Past Black Hurt Poor Thirty Progressive Thirty Years Fads

Author:Shelby Steele

“To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of African Americans to our society.”

Knows Needs Children Facts Mere African American Contribution Our Society Progressive Educator

Book:Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice

Source: Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice

“A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard. I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming.”

Should Firsts Different Would Be Party Five Heard Republican First Time Thirds Green Democrat Response Debate Candidates Progressive Overwhelming Third Parties Green Party

Author:Peter Camejo

“When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in our future.”

People Men Firsts Long Sometimes Lying Progressive Our Future Backwards Wrong Road

Author:Richard M. Weaver

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

People Noble Progressive Lofty

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality...Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation. A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is separated for progressive elimination.”

Order Given Social Particular Morality Program Myth Separation Progressive Disguise Privileged Integration Segregation Institute Elimination Social Order Institutes

Author:R.J. Rushdoony

“A Progressive is one who is in favor of more taxes instead of less, more bureaus and jobholders, more paternalism and meddling, more regulation of private affairs and less liberty. In general, he would be inclined to regard the repeal of any tax as outrageous.”

Would Be Liberty Taxes Regard Affair Favors Progressive Regulation Outrageous Meddling Paternalism

Author:H. L. Mencken

“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.”

Mean Taxes Income Socialism Progressive Capitalist Income Tax Engels

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax.”

Moral Taxes Libertarian Income Distinction Progressive Income Tax

Author:Leonard Read

“Happiness is the offspring of concentrated action. Excellence is achieved through the progressive realization of incremental goals along the path of your life's mission.”

Action Goal Path Excellence Missions Realization Progressive Offspring

Author:Robin Sharma

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

Want Ideology Progressive Disguise Competing Pragmatism Ideologues

Book:The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas

Source: The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas

“[To] the progressive mind, the very concept of "the enemy" is obsolescent: there are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven't yet accommodated.”

Mind Enemy Havens Concepts Progressive Grievance Just Friends

Book:America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It

Source: America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It

“And in the minds of progressives you are free to live anyway you want so long as it's progressive.”

Want Mind Long Progressive

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“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.”

Names Successful Taxes Entrepreneur Accepted Income Progressive Capitalist Taxation Inheritance Mislead Progressive Taxation

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair.”

States Parent Becoming Notion Affair Caring Progressive Bipartisan

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“The essence and the glory of the free market is that individual firms and businesses, competing on the market, provide an ever-changing orchestration of efficient and progressive goods and services: continually improving products and markets, advancing technology, cutting costs, and meeting changing consumer demands as swiftly and as efficiently as possible.”

Source: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

“The political left, which holds itself as progressive, rational and fact-based, is becoming an enemy of academic inquiry, and a practitioner of thought control on a wide variety of issues. Increasingly, from the left's perspective, there is just one acceptable viewpoint.”

Facts Political Left Enemy Issues Perspective Becoming Wide Rational Variety Just One Progressive Academic Acceptable Inquiry Viewpoints

Author:David Limbaugh

“I believe there's an emerging American majority for progressive economic change.”

Believe I Believe Economic Majority Progressive Emerging Economic Change

Author:Bill de Blasio

“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.”

Wells Has Beens Philosophy Realizing Wealth Class Greater Failing Taxes Rate Saved Income Progressive Taxation Consumed Income Tax Progressive Taxation

Book:Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism

Source: Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism

“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.”

People Believe Values Left Superiors Progressive Activist Acceptable Adversaries

Author:Dennis Prager

“If you're a progressive, if you're driving a Prius, or you're shopping green or you're looking for organic, you should probably be a semi-vegetarian.”

Ifs Should Green Driving Progressive Vegetarian Shopping Prius

Author:Mark Bittman

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