Progressive Quotes - Page 22

• 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.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Memories, Men, Revolution

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Support, Revolution, Reactionaries

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• 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.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Religious, Men, Discovery

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• 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.

  Bill de Blasio

  Change, Country, Thinking

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. April 12, 2015.

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• 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.

  Pope Francis

  Country, Children, Makeup

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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, Progressive Society

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

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• 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.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Country, Religious, Memories

  "For Afghanistan With Love". Interview with Ilana Teitelbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• 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.

  Pablo Picasso

  Running, Moving, Somewhere Else

  "s anybody out there?: religions and belief in God in the contemporary world". Book by John Bowker, p. 57, 1988.

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• 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.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Heart, Goal, Humanity

  Charles Lindbergh (1913). “Banking and Currency and the Money Trust”, p.130, Lulu.com

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• 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.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Men, Thinking

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

  David Shields

  Mosaics, Momentum, Narrative

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• 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.

  Salman Rushdie

  Islam, Culture, Weapons

  "Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor'". Address at Columbia University, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

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• 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.

  Kevin Smith

  Thinking, Anchors, Ideas

  "Fictional character: Rufus". "Dogma", www.independent.co.uk. 1999.

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• 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.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Strong, Justice, Unjust

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2012). “Man's Nature and His Communities: Essays on the Dynamics and Enigmas of Man's Personal and Social Existence”, p.24, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Unlike yellow and brown people, the white does not usually believe he can get attention from matter or objects.
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  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.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Believe, Yellow, White

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• 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.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Teacher, School, Gay

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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

  Shelby Steele

  Hurt, Children, Past

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• 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.

  Sol Stern

  Children, African American, Needs

  Sol Stern (2003). “Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice”

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• 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.

  Peter Camejo

  Party, Would Be, Green

  "Raw Data: Foxnews.com Interviews Peter Camejo". Foxnews.com Interview, www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2004.

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• 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.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Lying, Men, Long

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

  Susan B. Anthony

  People, Noble, Lofty

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• 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.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Order, Morality, Separation

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• 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.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Income, Socialism

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

  Leonard Read

  Income, Libertarian, Moral

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• 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.

  Robin Sharma

  Goal, Excellence, Realization

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