Progressive Quotes

Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant. (Benjamin Disraeli)
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. View quote
Will Durant
I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive. View quote
Kiefer Sutherland
There are but three classes of men - the retrograde, the stationary, the progressive. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. View quote
Will Durant
In sum, the processes of evolution create initially comparatively simple dynamical systems on particular levels of organisation. The processes then lead to the progressive complexification of the existing systems and, ultimately, to the creation of simpler systems on the next higher organisational level, where complexification begins anew. Thus evolution moves from the simpler to the more complex, and from the lower to the higher level of organisation. View quote
Ervin László
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. View quote
Earl Nightingale
I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men. View quote
Christie Hefner
The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula. View quote
Herbert Croly
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. (Robert W. Welch, Jr.)
Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems. View quote
Sidney Blumenthal
Life is the apprenticeship to progressive renunciation, to the steady diminution of our claims, of our hopes, of our powers, of our liberty. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
It is not for nothing that Skaldin in one part of his book quotes Adam Smith: we have seen that both his views and the character of his arguments in many respects repeat the theses of that great ideologist of the progressive bourgeoisie. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states. View quote
John Desmond Bernal
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience. View quote
Shelley Winters
But the Progressive Conservative is very definitely liberal Republican. These are people who are moderately conservative on economic matters, and in the past have been moderately liberal, even sometimes quite liberal on social policy matters. View quote
Stephen Harper
I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity. View quote
Paul Nurse
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. View quote
John Kerry
The Labour Party is the sister Party for the Democrats and their progressive views are the ones that we are most aligned with. (Harriet Harman)
How can you look at this and not see it as the symbol for the self-referencing nature of progressive evolution. View quote
Sanjaya Malakar
The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution. View quote
Bell hooks
As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing. View quote
Bell hooks
Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish. View quote
Benjamin Graham