Progressive Society Quotes

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

Doug Stanhope

#2. I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.

Tom Morello

#3. I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#4. The health of an enlightened and progressive society is measured by how vibrant is its science fiction, since that is where true self-critique and appraisal and hope lie.

David Brin

#5. Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. PROGRESSIVISM = EUGENICS: Centrally Planned economies tempt population control.

A.E. Samaan

#7. The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.

Maria Montessori

#8. At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

Howard Dean

#9. To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of African Americans to our society.

Sol Stern

#10. 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

#11. The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

Henry James Sumner Maine

#12. Moving forward implies MOTION when in all actuality it may be simply standing STILL and seeing the salvation of the Lord.

John Paul Warren

#13. Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live.

Angela Davis

#14. Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned ... That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

Walter Lippmann

#15. The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only persons can work towards them.

Ivan Illich

#16. Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

Orhan Pamuk

#17. Progressive policies lead to a regressive society.

Ilana Mercer

#18. The well-defined principles last when time moves on. However, a progressive organization or society will love to break the old or hidden rules in order to move forward.

Pearl Zhu

#19. Canada must be progressive, and Canada must be a just society.

Justin Trudeau

#20. happiest and the most comfortable. It is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state. The progressive state is in reality the cheerful and the hearty state to all the different orders of the society. The stationary is dull; the declining melancholy.

Niall Ferguson

#21. Our business is to do our duty, to cut and slash, not to think, that's all, he concluded.

Leo Tolstoy

#22. Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.

Anas Aremeyaw Anas

#23. Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.

George Soros

#24. Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

Patricia Wentworth

#25. Every Nigerian must begin to raise their voice against our societal failures and call them as such at every juncture. In this way we could all bring about a modern, progressive and civilized society.

Sunday Adelaja

#26. I'm a progressive. What I find is that a subsection within the left that instead of standing for consistency in progressive values, so feminism as applied to mainstream society, as well as within minority communities, gay rights to mainstream society as well as within minority communities.

Maajid Nawaz

#27. I absolutely love being on stage. I live and breathe the stage, and nothing makes me happier, but to perform.

Judith Hill

#28. Racists are everywhere, but historically speaking the real danger came from Progressives that desired the power of the state to engineer society upon a racial lines.

A.E. Samaan

#29. 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.

Jamie Dimon

#30. 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

#31. Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.

Bill Moyers

#32. Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism.

A.E. Samaan