Progressive Society Quotes

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Imperfect, Superiors

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). "Pensamientos Gloriosos de Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects" (Pensamientos gloriosos de Gandhi: un tesoro de unos diez mil pensamientos valiosos e inspiradores de , clasificados en cuatrocientos temas).

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• The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Sabio, Hombres, Ley

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.113

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

  Angela Davis

  Art, People, Emancipation

  Angela Y. Davis (2011). “Women, Culture & Politics”, p.200, Vintage

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• Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

  Salvador Dalí

  Arte, Carácter, Personas

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• Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

  Enrique Jorge

  Children, Clothes, Progress

  Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Congress is the great enabler, constitutionally, for progressive society, and it's the great graveyard, the way it's been behaving, against a prosperous society, or another billionaire or two.

  Ralph Nader

  Two, Way, Congress

  Fuente: www.democracynow.org

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• Congress is the most powerful branch. It can expand a progressive society, or it can block a progressive society.

  Ralph Nader

  Powerful, Block, Branches

  Fuente: www.democracynow.org

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• 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

  People, Peaceful, Resistance

  Interview with Robin Grearson, logger.believermag.com. August 27, 2013.

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

  Doug Stanhope

  Progressive, Institutions, Whole

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• I couldn't possibly explain why the common person would be against something like that. It's all rooted in sexual hang-ups. The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society. I don't know why anyone would want to get married heterosexually, so why they'd be against homosexual marriage is flummoxing. I only use that word when I'm talking to someone from the British press.

  Doug Stanhope

  Homosexual Marriage, Talking, Would Be

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

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Wisdom, Movement, Politics

  Ancient Law ch. 5 (1861)

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• En las sociedades progresistas, la concentración [de la riqueza] puede llegar a un punto en el que la fuerza del número de los muchos pobres rivalice con la fuerza de la capacidad de los pocos ricos; entonces, el equilibrio inestable genera una situación crítica, a la que la historia ha hecho frente de diversas formas: mediante la legislación que redistribuye la riqueza o mediante la revolución que distribuye la pobreza.

  Will Durant

  Concentration Of Wealth, Numbers, Rivals

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). "Las lecciones de la historia", Simon & Schuster

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• Yo era muy inquieta. Realmente quería formar parte de una especie de sociedad progresista. Estaba harto de esas doctrinas comunistas y de que te molestaran todo el tiempo con miembros del comité del Partido que eran del KGB, de lo que tenías que hacer, de dónde en Occidente podías ir o no.

  Mijaíl Baryshnikov

  Partido, Kgb, Doctrina

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