Quotes of Progressive - somelinesforyou

“ It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline. ”

- Will Rogers

“ Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role. ”

- Kim Campbell

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ 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

“ I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered. ”

- Tom Hayden

“ 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. ”

- John F. Kerry

“ Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ”

- Will Durant

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction. ”

- Dorothee Soelle

“ If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ”

- Paul Bremer

“ Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ”

- Will Durant

“ There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive. ”

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

“ The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. ”

- Henry Geldzahler

“ Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. ”

- Earl Nightingale

“ It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. ”

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“ Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like unto him wherever he goes. What you are comes to you. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ 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. ”

- John Christian Bovee

“ A radical is one of whom people say "He goes too far." A conservative, on the other hand, is one who "doesn't go far enough." Then there is the reactionary, "one who doesn't go at all." All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have coined the term "progressive… ”

- Woodrow T. Wilson

“ We have a complete void of progressive politics in this country right now. The will of the people goes ignored and unrealized. I'm searching for the people that can enter the political system, a strong third party. We need to consolidate. ”

- Ani DiFranco

“ But there is something seriously problematic about radicals and progressives in American politics. Some say it's the two-party system that squashes third parties. Some say that it's the potentiality or expanse of the middle class that marginalizes people that want to reform the system itself… ”

- Tom Hayden

“ I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you right now, I am not the merger candidate. I am not interested in institutional marriages with other parties. ”

- Peter MacKay

“ The source of numerous psychic disturbances and difficulties occasioned by man's progressive alienation from his instinctual foundation, i.e., by his uprootedness and identification with his conscious knowledge of himself, by his concern with consciousness at the expense of the unconscious… ”

- Carl Gustav Jung

“ It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animals rhythm of rest and activity. ”

- Thomas Moore

“ As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow; and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance contains for him, it passes away and gives place to other circumstances. ”

- James Allen

“ 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. ”

- Johannes A. Gaertner

“ The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ 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. ”

- Angela Y. Davis

“ Five daily newspapers arrive in my California driveway. The New York times and the Wall Street Journal are supplemented by three local papers. As for magazines, I read, or at least skim, Business Week, Forbes, The Economist, INC; Industry Week, Fortune… ”

- Thomas J. Peters
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