Quotes About Progressive

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.

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.

A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who, he knows, know more than he does.

Liberals are not all going to say exactly the same at all times; I hope they never will, because they would cease to be Liberals.

Running had become the new sport of the ritualistic liberal.

Depuis quand était-ce ainsi? Il est difficile de dater le début d'un déclin d'amour. C'est progressif, insidieux, l'aisance surnoise des agonies.

Leur cohabitation devenait un théâtre de deux forces antagoniques: une attirance progressive brimée par une distance toujours respectée.

Of all the English-speaking people in the seventeenth century, the Quakers moved farthest toward the idea of equality between the sexes.

If he had gone to the old school, he was by no means old-school.

Americans, wrote a historian of the period, were in general so ignorant of the realities on the ground that 'when the Palestinians rose up in resistance they were able to see the Zionists' increasingly aggressive, colonialist behaviour as a defence of democracy and other progressive Western ideals', while this 'Palestinian resistance to imperialist invasion became a form of unwarranted offense against civilization'.28

Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.

Dishonesty is fundamental to the progressive cause since the cause is always about an imagined future whose panaceas cannot pass the test of experience.

The whole history of the radical past, from Trotsky on, warned that my individual truth would have little effect on the attitude of the left. Confronted by such a truth, the left would seek first to ignore and then to discredit it, because it was damaging to the progressive cause.

It is seldom that liberty of any kind, is lost all at once.

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

And let me tell you 'Kingdom of God' language is really big in the emerging church.

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

There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.

Holland is very good at avant garde, probably due to the Dutch character. Good at design. Experimentation sometimes works here very well.

Prog rock, with a little good taste, is ok. I tried to bring some of it into this century, I guess.

There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government.

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

Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.