Progressive Quotes - Page 4

• Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Men, Biceps, Today

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt: the new Heath Ledger?". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2009.

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• If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Progress, Legs, Sometimes

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• In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Lying, Reality, Men

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• My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.

  Josh Hartnett

  Musical, Zeppelins, Bob

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

  Jim Hightower

  Government, Outsiders, Force

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 30, 2010.

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• People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.

  Erica Jong

  Attitude, Thinking, Ideas

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• The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Attitude, Issues, Political

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• 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.

  Marco Rubio

  Labels, Come Up, Insurance Companies

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• Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive.

  Paul Ryan

  Government, Reform, Income

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• I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.

  Zoe Saldana

  Beautiful, Girl, Fiction

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• When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Peace, War, Politics

  Le Diable et le bon Dieu (The Devil and the Good Lord, 1951) act 1, first tableau

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• If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.

  Steven Spielberg

  Running, World, Way

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• I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

  Oliver Stone

  Past, Thinking, Experience

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• This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.

  Allen West

  Agendas, Republic, Who We Are

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• In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bake sales and the local American Legion Post while the only charity a progressive sends is a smug sermon on fair share and what fairness is.

  Allen West

  Real, Agency, Volunteer

  "CPAC Highlights: Rubio and West". "The Rush Limbaugh Show" with Rush Limbaugh, origin-www.rushlimbaugh.com. March 14, 2013.

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

  Allen West

  Business, Support, Individual

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• Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, People, Hey

  "Cornel West INTERVIEW: Don’t Appoint Larry Summers As An Economic Adviser And Tell Me You’re Progressive", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2009.

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• But then why is it so terrible for me to be with the girl I love? Everyone one is permitted to have what they want, express their love as they please, without fear of harassment, ostracism, persecution, or even the law. Even emotionally abusive, adulterous relationships are often tolerated, despite the harm they cause others. In our progressive, permissive society, all these harmful, unhealthy types of "love" are allowed--but not ours.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Girl, Law, Want

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.372, Simon and Schuster

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• These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Railroads, Coal, Ems

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• If you are in a country that is progressive, the woman is progressive. If you're in a country that reflects the consciousness toward the importance of education, it's because the woman is aware of the importance of education. But in every backward country you'll find the women are backward, and in every country where education is not stressed its because the women don't have education.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Stressed, Consciousness

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Darkness, Degrees

  Stephen King (2009). “Stephen King Goes to the Movies”, p.519, Simon and Schuster

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• I get the sense many people are unsure about their digital media allocation. Even those who believe they are progressive in their thinking wonder if they have got it right.

  Mark Renshaw

  Business, Believe, Thinking

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• Even those who fancy themselves the most progressive will fight against other kinds of progress, for each of us is convinced that our way is the best way.

  Louis L'Amour

  Change, Fighting, Growth

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “The Lonely Men”, p.90, Bantam

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• We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

  John W. Gardner

  Courage, Powerful, Fear

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• Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law.
  A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Government, Law, History

  Theodore Roosevelt (1955). “Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist”

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