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Quotes About Progressive

the development of "female" art is not to viewed as reactionary, like its counterpart, the male School of Virility. Rather it is progressive: an exploration of the strictly female reality is a necessary step to correct the warp in a sexually biased culture. It is only after we have integrated the dark side of the moon into our world view that we can begin to talk seriously of universal culture.
~ Shulamith Firestone
There is nothing more profitable than the extreme avant garde.
~ Silvia Hartmann
Surely, though, the essence of being progressive was to minimize harm and protect the most vulnerable? Yet this was simply tossed aside by left-wingers, who elevated their own desires into rights that trumped the emotional, physical and intellectual well-being of their children – and then berated as heartless reactionaries those who criticized them!
~ Melanie Phillips
Other professionals say codependency is a disease; it's a chronic, progressive illness. They suggest codependents want and need sick people around them to be happy in an unhealthy way.
~ Melody Beattie
Politically progressive black people on the Left who are not nationalist, like myself, share a perspective that promotes the eradication of white supremacy, the de-centering of the West, redressing of biases, and commitment to affirming black self-determination. Yet we add to the critique of white Western imperialism a repudiation of patriarchy, a critique of capitalism, and a concern for interracial coalition building.
~ bell hooks
we must consistently challenge dehumanizing public representations of poverty and the poor. Restoring to our nation the understanding that people can be materially poor yet have abundant lives rich in engagement with nature, with local culture, with spiritual values is essential to any progressive struggle to halt mountaintop removal
~ bell hooks
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
~ Bertrand Russell
every external interest inspires some activity which, so long as the interest remains alive, is a complete preventive of ennui. Interest in oneself, on the contrary, leads to no activity of a progressive kind. It may lead to the keeping of a diary, to getting psycho-analysed, or perhaps to becoming a monk.
~ Bertrand Russell
It is impossible for technique to remain long progressive without science, or for science to flourish where there is no freedom of thought. Consequently insistence on doctrinal uniformity, even in matters quite remote from war, is ultimately fatal to military efficiency in a scientific age.
~ Bertrand Russell
A great many of the impulses which now lead nations to go to war are in themselves essential to any vigorous or progressive life. Without imagination and love of adventure a society soon becomes stagnant and begins to decay. Conflict, provided it is not destructive and brutal, is necessary in order to stimulate men's activities, and to secure the victory of what is living over what is dead or merely traditional.
~ Bertrand Russell
We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.
~ Rodrigo Rato
I think I was the first executive to ever speak at a Greenpeace business conference, in London in 2001. That didn't play well here at Ford, but I thought it was an important signal to send internally, that these were the kind of issues we needed to be grappling with.
~ William Clay Ford, Jr.
I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That's what modernism means to me.
~ Paul Rand
Having defeated global fascism, a ruined country rebuilt itself from rubble thanks to the most progressive government in our history and the talents of its children, kids raised by and large outside of the establishment and the elite on a diet of orange juice, free school milk, NHS specs, Watch with Mother, public libraries, art schools, galleries and all the other benefits of a forward-looking state and a commitment to the public good not the private profit.
~ Stuart Maconie
San Francisco was her favorite. It was the kind of city where being independent was valued, not pitied or regarded as a problem to be rectified by well-meaning friends.
~ Susan Wiggs
There is nothing inherently conservative in the ancient world.
~ Mary Beard
I co-managed AOC's campaign alongside Vigie Ramos Rios and also was the one that managed the launch of her initial campaign in 2017.
~ Saikat Chakrabarti
We've got to be innovative. We've got to think about what's coming next.
~ Nick Nurse
Cultural arenas and institutions that were always liberal are being prodded or dragged further to the left.
~ Ross Douthat
In many ways I think 'Fly From Here' is a return to classic Yes; people seem to have been really enjoying it, integrated into the set along with the old material.
~ Chris Squire
All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.
~ Carroll O'Connor
When I was at the Group for Musical Research, with this idea of discovering electronic music, I quickly realized that that it was a very interesting and exciting approach to music, but I also saw that it was very intellectual and quite dogmatic.
~ Jean-Michel Jarre
But what I intend to do, the day after Hillary Clinton is elected president of the United States, is to do everything I can to make sure she goes forward as progressively as she can.
~ Bernie Sanders
Come credeva alla iettatura, era incrollabile nell'opinione che il colera fosse un malefizio, un espediente di governo inteso a sfollare le popolazioni, a incutere un salutare timore nei superstiti. Dinanzi allo zio duca, sapendolo dell'opinione contraria, più «progressista», cioè che la peste venisse per correnti atmosferiche, taceva prudentemente; ma con Fersa si sbottonava, derideva le quarantene e tutti gli altri amminnicoli fatti per darla a bere ai gonzi.
~ Federico De Roberto