Quotes About Progressive

Though Johnson had a proven record as a New Dealer and modern progressive, on the national stage he was still regarded as a regional figure. He refused to go easy on white rule in the South.

Just what do we tax under our current system? Work, that's what. Hard work and productivity. The harder you work, the more you achieve. The more you achieve, the more you're taxed. To make matters worse, under our "progressive" income tax system, the harder you work, the more severe the punishment actually is!

That complexity may only have been 'quiet, loud, quiet, loud again', but at a time when most rock bands only had two volume settings – painfully loud and really, really painfully loud – this was groundbreaking stuff.

Revolution is progressive and seeks the strengthening of the state; rebellion is reactionary and seeks its disappearance. The revolutionary is a potential government official; the rebel is a reactionary in action.

The progressive's cardinal syllogism is simply beautiful: the best always triumphs, because what triumphs is called the best.

El progresista sueña en la estabulación científica de la humanidad.

To be a revolutionary one must be a little daft; to be a conservative, a little cynical.

La revolución es progresista y busca el robustecimiento del estado; la rebelión es reaccionaria y busca su desvanecimiento. El revolucionario es un funcionario en potencia; el rebelde es un reaccionario en acto. (Revolution is progressive and seeks the strengthening of the state; rebellion is reactionary and seeks its disappearance. The revolutionary is a potential government official; the rebel is a reactionary in action.)

Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.

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.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

My grandfather was a closet feminist. So

What was right and true yesterday is wrong and false today. What was immoral and shameful — promiscuity, abortion, euthanasia, suicide — has become progressive and praiseworthy. Nietzsche called it the transvaluation of all values; the old virtues become sins, and the old sins become virtues.

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.

What we need most is a heart ruled by the Lord rather than by "evil desires." We need to be progressively freed from our slavery to the god-replacements that imprison us in self-absorbed pursuit of our own glory.

The question that poses itself is exactly what one means by "democracy." Is it to be identified with self-conscious peoples ruling themselves, or does it entail the establishment and maintenance of "civic culture" by experts with "progressive" social views? Although these two opposed understandings have coexisted in the same societies, they are fundamentally incompatible.

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.

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile goals.

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.

Soon after Robinson's testimony, HUAC ended the hearings without calling Paul, thus conceding defeat. By now a strong majority of the black masses, especially in the South, supported Paul. The left and progressive constituencies backed him solidly, including the entire Communist Party leadership.

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.

These days, we forget that fascism was a supposedly progressive ideology that sought to create the perfect society based on the science of the time.

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.