Top 28 Being Progressive Quotes
#1. Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'
Colin Powell
#2. Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.
Diana Vreeland
#3. Understanding Hamas/Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the left, that are part of a global left, is extremely important. That does not stop us from being critical of certain dimensions of both movements.
Judith Butler
#4. All the things I've ever wanted to say suddenly I've been bold enough to say them on Social Media.
Germany Kent
#5. I had been brought up in an elementary school where, my first few grades, I remember being specifically told that my teachers were gay. I was just that age and that was just how it was, and my parents were very ... You know, that's how I was raised. Like super-progressive.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#6. If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.
G.K. Chesterton
#7. And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.
Fred Frith
#8. When the experts' scientific knowledge is legitimated in terms of being rational, logical, efficient, educated, progressive, modern, and enlightened, what analogies can other segments of society . . . utilize to challenge them?
Martin Guevara Urbina
#9. This is my moral. Trust what you dream. Not what you think.
David Mitchell
#10. Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
Ben Jonson
#11. As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow; and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance contains for him, it passes away and gives place to other circumstances.
James Allen
#12. For all her talk of being or so progressive and free ... all she really is is full of shit!
Lauren Dane
#13. Putting labels on people is so counter-productive. Most of us on some issues could be considered conservative, on other issues could be considered progressive, on other issues might be thought of as being moderate, on other issues might be thought of as being rather forthright.
Tony Abbott
#14. Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
Imelda Staunton
#15. When people accuse us of being retrograde, or medieval, or puritanical - all words rummaged out of the box labeled "Not Progressive" - we should shrug, as if they had accused us of walking on two feet, and
Anthony Esolen
#16. Hoosiers don't believe in discrimination.
Mike Pence
#17. The slow turtle wins the race!" at it pertains to writing and editing well.
Dennis De Rose
#18. To play a cop's wife - there's so much in that world, the wives or partners of anyone who is a first responder - it's not an easy job. It's not an easy way to live, to say goodbye to someone in the morning and not know what's going to happen throughout the day.
Amy Carlson
#19. Being a liberal progressive has been demonized as anti-white or overly on the side of blacks. There's nothing that can be done about that; it's just where we are in the history of our perceptions.
Darryl Pinckney
#20. Christians - who have no patience with Darwinistic materialism - often sound as progressive as the most ardent evolutionist. They look for "new" theologies, "new" ways of worship, and "new" music, being quite willing to toss out their entire "old-fashioned" Christian heritage.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#21. Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.
August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
#22. One night at a party, a really drunk guy came up to me and said, 'Whoa you look like Yves Saint Laurent' because I was wearing a turtleneck. I'd love to track that guy down and tell him that he gave pretty good casting advice.
Pierre Niney
#23. We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
Lionel Trilling
#24. This idea that once you get into politics ... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.
Matt Gonzalez
#26. 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?
Oscar A. Romero
#27. I think Albertans are progressive and forward-looking and are very optimistic, and I think they've always embraced change. Now with the economy being the way it is, I think we need to acknowledge people are a bit nervous too.
Rachel Notley
#28. Paul started out as an outsider to the apostolic band and originally opposed rather than supported their movement.
Bart D. Ehrman
