Regressive Quotes

#1. The people who decided in their wisdom that we're all going to go over to ebooks, they are not readers. These are technical people. These are people who think that somehow this is progress. It isn't. It's regressive.

Jeanette Winterson

#2. To focus capital and entrepreneurship into empowering innovation, we should change is the capital gains tax rate. We would be better served by a regressive tax rate, that would become progressively smaller the longer the investment is held.

Clayton Christensen

#3. There is a clear difference between sexist parody and parody of sexism. Sexist parody encourages the players to mock and trivialize gender issues while parody of sexism disrupts the status quo and undermines regressive gender conventions.

Anita Sarkeesian

#4. Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy.

Alice Miller

#5. Progressive policies lead to a regressive society.

Ilana Mercer

#6. The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.

Kangana Ranaut

#7. The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#8. While they rightly question every aspect of their "own" Western culture in the name of progress, they censure liberal Muslims who attempt to do so within Islam, and they choose to side instead with every regressive reactionary in the name of "cultural authenticity" and anticolonialism.

Sam Harris

#9. I have nothing to fear from serious social studies of science, and I hope that my philosophy will help progressive science policies while showing that the most modern views of science are ignorant and regressive, even if they are accompanied by a leftist-sounding rhetoric.

Mario Bunge

#10. On the downside, to paraphrase Thom Yorke talking about the music business, we're still having to deal with the stench of the last fart of the dying corpse of this regressive vision that America is a white, middle-aged, male, conservative country.

Edward Norton

#11. As soon as the genome had been cmpletely decoded (which would be in a matter of months) humanity would have complete control of its evolution; when that happened sexuality would be seen for what it really was: a useless, dangerous, and regressive function.

Michel Houellebecq

#12. If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.

John Perry Barlow

#13. Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

Maria Montessori

#14. There is an invitation beyond the wall of knowledge, which is not to some regressive state before the mind can operate, but a transcendent state that's beyond where the mind can go. That's what spirituality is. It's going where the mind cannot go.

Adyashanti

#15. A democratic medical establishment does not alter people's bodies to fit regressive social norms; it advocates for patients by demanding the social body get its act together.

Alice Dreger

#16. We are creating the future. It is not determined. If we get our act together and solve our current problems, we could have a sustainable, abundant future. If we don't, we could wipe ourselves out. We are on the verge of doing it with our current politics. It is regressive, going back the other way.

Edgar Mitchell

#17. The moment right now, it's a tragically regressive time we live in, you know. We just grounded the Concorde. Where's the future? We've lost the future.

Aleksandra Mir

#18. Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have 'the responsibility gene.' No one has that gene more markedly than his wife.

Tina Brown

#19. I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.

Timothy Noah

#20. There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community.

Mario Cuomo

#21. But it is not regressive to surrender to our feminine selves. It's the most progressive line if development because it honors, instead of represses, our emotions.

Marianne Williamson

#22. Progressive feminists have shown nothing but the most reflexive, regressive contempt for women on the other side of the ideological aisle. It doesn't matter if you're a conservative stay at home mom, work at home mom, or work outside the home mom. If you're Right, the Left is gonna hate.

Michelle Malkin

#23. Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

Nigel Farage

#24. Intuitive predictions need to be corrected because they are not regressive and therefore are biased.

Daniel Kahneman

#25. The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.

Umera Ahmad

#26. All women, regardless of her economic status or racial background, have a right to vote, and no politician or regressive law should prevent her from doing so.

Al Sharpton

#27. It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism.

Jon Landau

#28. Read much, but not too many books.

Benjamin Franklin

#29. White magic is black magic. a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people, and demons used for good can hang around and make mischief afterwards.

Iris Murdoch

#30. The world will never be safe for democracy - it is a dangerous trade

G.K. Chesterton

#31. A story? No. No stories, never again.

Maurice Blanchot

#32. Mantlets. "Here come our breakfast arrows," Pyp announced

George R R Martin

#33. Name the different kinds of people,' said Miss Lupescu. 'Now.'

Bod thought for a moment. 'The living,' he said. 'Er. The dead.' He stopped. Then, '... Cats?' he offered, uncertainly.

Neil Gaiman

#34. The Extension Of God's Glory Throughout The Earth Is To Fill The Atmosphere Of Heaven

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