Progressive Quotes

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

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.

Our problem is that we don't have enough people in America, including black people, who are progressive and willing to sacrifice their popularity in order to tell the truth.

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

Progressive Consequentialsm requires us to make the world better but we are under no obligation to bring about the best possible world.

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

Being a liberal progressive has been demonized as anti-white or overly on the side of blacks. There's nothing that can be done about that; it's just where we are in the history of our perceptions.

Most conservative and progressive talk radio is primarily just that - bloviated opinion and whacky viewer calls.

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

Stiffening the spine of progressive members of Congress is crucial.

You do have an effect on the universe. If you think positive thoughts, if you are happy and progressive, then that energy affects everyone on the whole planet, in subtle ways, perhaps, but it does.

In meditation we get a sense of the countless selves within ourselves, the different forms they take. Those that don't seem positive or helpful we push aside. Those that seem progressive we enjoy.

I think that wars will never stop, it's just that there are sides. You have to choose your side. And there are more progressive sides.

Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment.

To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.

There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

What's the difference between a communist or socialist and a progressive? Revolution or evolution? One requires a gun and the other eats away slowly.

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.

[Obamacare] has to be enforced because nobody wants it. This is the nature of progressive government they don't care if it's not good for you. It's good for them.

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

A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."

Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.

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

I think we should be talk about what we want to do for the country. But if we're going to get into labels, I don't think it was particularly progressive to vote against the Brady Bill five times.

Progressive policies lead to a regressive society.

There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.

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

Historically the mainstream media has never been particularly friendly to any socially progressive ideas.

The way that you address this right-wing extremism is actually by putting forward a truly progressive agenda. That's the only solution here.

Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy.

The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.

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

What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.

Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.

We need a new approach to national security - a bold, progressive internationalism that stands in stark contrast to the too often belligerent and myopic unilateralism of the Bush Administration.

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

For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

I know we play a part in the story of progressive music, but for us those influences are the real fathers, the ones that we were interested in.

The style of music that we're playing, this progressive metal style, has always been an upstream battle for us. We don't usually get a lot of commercial exposure.

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

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

One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it.

When the dialogue is on point and I feel like the overall story and message is really serving something that's socially progressive, it really makes me want to be a part of it.

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.

The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world.

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.

Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights.

The continuous war between the reactionary and the progressive forces determine the degree of mankind's happiness.

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