Best 159 quotes in «progressive quotes» category

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry.

I think sex work gets over-mystified and overcomplicated because it's about sexuality, and women's sexuality in general. What strikes me when I look at sex worker organizations and sex worker movements, in the US especially, is that they're so in alignment with other longstanding progressive causes. If anything, sex workers have been at the forefront of some of these causes. There have always been sex workers at the forefront of social movements.

It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.

I've been regulated my whole life. We have progressive taxes. It's not a free-market free-for-all. I completely understand that society has a perfectly legitimate right to put in structures and regulations and rules that make it fairer, better, cleaner.

It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.

I think the progressive audience that loves Star Trek will be happy that we're continuing that tradition being progressive and all-inclusive. Star Trek's not necessarily a universe where I want to hear a lot of profanity.

I watch Glenn Beck and he's taught me well. Progressive is the new word for Communist

Keith Ellison is the future of the Democratic Party, the future of the progressive movement.

Lack of rule of law is the main reason Pakistan could not join the ranks of progressive nations.

Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

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

Marx and Engels openly declared that the progressive income tax and the death tax are 'economically untenable' and that they advocated them only because 'they necessitate further inroads' upon the capitalist system and are 'unavoidable' as a means of bringing about socialism.

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success - only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, prosperous, progressive and free.

People still talk about sampling as this new, progressive problem in music. There are technologies now where you can glean the polyphonic information out of a sample and then put that back in and then score it for five instruments. You don't need digital audio to sample; you can rewrite things.

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

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

Progressive disclosure defers advanced or rarely used features to a secondary screen, making applications easier to learn and less error-prone.

Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you're gay or not it's irrelevant, Scouting values respect.

Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy.

So many commercial orgs have software where you can come and modify it but they still control everything. And what's controlled is very clearly what's good for their business, or if they're more progressive, their view of what's good for the Internet.

Success is the progressive, timely achievement of your stated goals.

The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

The inner change, justification, is effected at the moment of salvation. The outer change in the believer's daily walk, sanctification, continues throughout life. But the progressive work of sanctification is only fully effective when the radical, inner transformation of justification is realized and appropriated by faith.

I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world.

Seattle’s Moraine not only make Washington State proud, but also the whole American progressive music scene joyful. ... It’s simply an impressive dead on eleven song tour de force. ... GET THIS! Highly Recommended!

Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask; by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?

That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.

That's what the tactics are, Nazi tactics. Nazi tactics are progressive tactics first.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

The radical ideas of one generation have become the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of reformers, radicals, and idealists who challenged the status quo of their day. They helped change America by organizing movements, pushing for radical reforms, popularizing progressive ideas, and spurring others to action.

There is nothing conservative about bailing out Wall Street. Likewise, there is nothing progressive about billion dollar loans to millionaires to build solar panels.

The road to success is always under construction. It is a progressive course, not an end to be reached.

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.

The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

The Nazis learned their propaganda from the progressive movement in the United States.

This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.

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

A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

We cannot leap into world government through one quick step... The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units.

A church that does not provoke any crisis, preach a gospel that does not unsettle, proclaim a word of God that does not get under anyone's skin or a word of God that does not touch the real sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed: what kind of gospel is that?

Advances in technology can be empowering, progressive and enriching. History has shown this across civilisations and societies. But it has also shown, and the present and future will continue to show, that it is foolish, risky, flawed and folly without us raising our individual and collective consciousness and mindfulness to accompany it - to ensure we use it shrewdly, kindly and wisely.

American newspapers frequently offered praise for eugenics just prior to WWII and The Holocaust .... that is, until Hitler revealed what eugenics really looked like. They avoided the subject for decades thereafter.

A living culture is a progressive culture. It not only allows change, but actively encourages it.

American Progressives have declared war on the sanctity and autonomy of the individual.