Progressive Society Quotes

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Imperfect, Superiors

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Wise, Men, Law

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.113

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

  Angela Davis

  Art, People, Emancipation

  Angela Y. Davis (2011). “Women, Culture & Politics”, p.200, Vintage

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• Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Character, People

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• Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

  Henry George

  Children, Clothes, Progress

  Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Congress is the great enabler, constitutionally, for progressive society, and it's the great graveyard, the way it's been behaving, against a prosperous society, or another billionaire or two.

  Ralph Nader

  Two, Way, Congress

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Congress is the most powerful branch. It can expand a progressive society, or it can block a progressive society.

  Ralph Nader

  Powerful, Block, Branches

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• 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.

  Tom Morello

  People, Peaceful, Resistance

  Interview with Robin Grearson, logger.believermag.com. August 27, 2013.

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

  Doug Stanhope

  Progressive, Institutions, Whole

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• I couldn't possibly explain why the common person would be against something like that. It's all rooted in sexual hang-ups. The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society. I don't know why anyone would want to get married heterosexually, so why they'd be against homosexual marriage is flummoxing. I only use that word when I'm talking to someone from the British press.

  Doug Stanhope

  Homosexual Marriage, Talking, Would Be

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

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Wisdom, Movement, Politics

  Ancient Law ch. 5 (1861)

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• 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.

  Will Durant

  Concentration Of Wealth, Numbers, Rivals

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The lessons of history”, Simon & Schuster

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• I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Party, Kgb, Doctrine

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