Progressive View Quotes

#1. I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.

Paul Nurse

#2. This nation should be less worried about putting the Vietnam syndrome behind us than restarting the World War II victory syndrome that resulted in the Vietnam syndrome in the first place.

Karl Marlantes

#3. We have to learn to love people even if they are not giving you what you want ... and then not take it personally. If you feel hurt, you have to recognize that they are not hurting you because you are you, but because they are them. You have to try not to be so hard on yourself.

Krishna Das

#4. A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising from the progressive intellectual development of man.

John William Draper

#5. I long to be out in the sun with no work to be done.

Irving Berlin

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

George Soros

#7. We are a pattern that changes slowly but has stability and continuity, even though the stuff constituting the pattern changes quickly.

Ray Kurzweil

#8. Of all the weaknesses that beset a man, vanity is the most deadly. For through vanity can a wise man turn to folly.

Raymond E. Feist

#9. To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.

George Trumbull Ladd

#10. When life kicks me, I kick it back.

Tarryn Fisher

#11. This is how 2001 should have ended, he thought. This is infinity.

Rainbow Rowell

#12. If you cannot discover happiness, invent it.

Tasnim Nathoo

#13. When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

Amy Winehouse

#14. Make us eternal truths receive,
And practice all that we believe:
Give us thyself, that we may see
The Father and the Son, by thee.

Charlemagne

#15. 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.

Mitchell Baker

#16. Keep moving ahead because action creates momentum, which in turn creates unanticipated oppurtunties.

Nick Vujicic

#17. To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.

Ken Keyes Jr.

#18. I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian.

Sander Levin

#19. Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little lamb or pig or calf, and that is one of God's creatures you're looking at, morally indistinguishable from your beloved Fluffy or Frisky.

Matthew Scully

#20. The reactionary point of view was always so easy to put, the complex, radical argument always so easy to put down.

Ben Elton

#21. This contrasts sharply with the progressive view that markets must respect human dignity and serve the common good while pursuing profit.

George Lakoff