Top 168 Progressives Quotes & Sayings

Progressives control America's schools and text book industry and they dishonestly leave the ugliest parts of the collectivist story out.

Progressives think the way to win is mobilizing and convince people to vote for something.

Progressives are not going to give up on facts.

In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

Should the progressives in Germany in the 30s have tolerated the National Socialists? Of course they shouldn't have.

I think the rise of progressives is the biggest storyline there is, whether it's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Kara Eastman or Randy Bryce, Richard Ojeda - real populist progressives that are willing to actually fight for the progressive message rather than the lukewarm establishment Democrats.

Fretting about overpopulation, is a perfect guilt-free - indeed, sanctimonious - way for "progressives" to be racists.

Progressives deliver everything except progress.

Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.

Liberals want to burn the flag, but progressives just want to microwave it?

Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

It's not only progressives who listen to progressive radio.

Indian writers in English are rank individualists. Even among the progressives, there is a strain of anti-leftism, or at least a suspicion of any organized politics.

People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We're not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives.

Progressives always like clean energy ideas. But conservatives should like this agenda, too.

Progressives want a different sort of media than what the Right wants.

As the news media eagerly report on polls showing that millennials increasingly reject capitalism, progressives energetically push the Democratic Party to the left.

I think particularly on the left, progressives wanted more bombast and more.

Progressives and conservatives alike lean, unconsciously, towards particular conclusions, and then scrabble around to rationalise those conclusions to themselves.

Progressives should recognize common morality with religion.

It`s one thing for Hillary Clinton to adopt some anti-Wall Street language to try to appeal to progressives.

Shutting down conservatives has become de rigueur. But now anti-free-speech activists are increasingly turning their ire on free-thinking progressives.

If you're a progressive, you can find lots of people who call themselves conservatives, but who agree with you on lots of things. There are people who call themselves conservatives, but who love the land as much as any environmentalist. Progressives share a number of common values with people who call themselves conservatives. Barack Obama has understood that very well. What he calls bipartisanship is not adopting conservative views, but finding where people who consider themselves conservatives share with him and other progressives these fundamental American values.

Christian socialism”). This is a difficult concept for modern liberals to grasp because they are used to thinking of the progressives as the people who cleaned up the food supply, pushed through the eight hour workday, and ended child labor. But liberals often forget that the progressives were imperialists, at home and abroad. They were the authors of Prohibition, the Palmer Raids, eugenics, loyalty oaths, and, in its modern incarnation, what many call “state capitalism.

Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can only win in the short term, because society cannot stop evolving (and social evolution inevitably dovetails with the agenda of those who see change as an abstract positive). It might take seventy years, but it always happens eventually. Serious historians are, almost without exception, self-styled progressives. Radical views--even the awful ones--improve with age.

Every time I go to these racial forums, it is people who are alike, or it is progressives and liberals. So I said, 'At some point, we've got to bring the progressives and the liberals and the conservatives together.'

From the Green New Deal to open borders, President Biden is working for the partisan progressives - not the American taxpayers.

And in the minds of progressives you are free to live anyway you want so long as it's progressive.

A message to progressives: By all means, hang Senator Joe Lieberman in effigy.

I make it a policy every election to only debate once, Democrats and Progressives. And I will say that the way that you have acted, very candidly, has been dishonorable in this entire campaign.

Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.

We need to find a new way forward. There are keys ways progressives can speak.

The Democratic Party has become the party of Bernie Sanders, I mean they are the progressives. That's who control.

As Democrats and progressives look to the future, we should remember our most essential values.

Traveling the world I've learned that progressives, regardless of their locations, think in a global space.

One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.

Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism.

Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.

Rather than name-calling and arguing about whether it is appropriate or not to employ radical tactics, we progressives need to start listening to each other.

I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives.

When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.

As progressives, we care about the well-being of others. We are soft-hearted and have aloha, respect, compassion for others, and we don't like to see anyone suffering.

[Progressives] think the Constitution is like Felix the Cat's magic bag: Look in there long enough and hard enough, and you can find anything.

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism. Nothing could have been more helpful to the success of the National-Socialist (Nazi) movement than the methods used by the "progressives," denouncing Nazism as a party serving the interests of "capital." The German workers knew this tactic too well to be deceived by it again.

The progressives have a challenge. Part of it is that you now have a lot of progressives who feel that 50 million, 60 million people voted to endorse the toxic parts of Donald Trump, that suddenly we now are in a country, you know, surrounded by people who, you know, are proud to be, you know, a part of this alt-right thing and they think it was an alt-right takeover.

Progressives regard government as the white knight that protects the public from the greed of capitalists. If only.

Your real progressives are never fair: they are never sufficiently neutral.

I sometimes think, as bad as things seem for progressives in this world in the Trump era, it's worse than we think it is.

White consciousness is deeply anti-black, and that's for progressives and conservatives.

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.

You'll notice that for many progressives, taking from the rich is not simply a necessity of budgeting but a moral imperative and a tool to institute fairness that capitalism supposedly hasn't.

Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States.

We can dig ourselves out of the ditch that the progressives and Obama-ites have driven us into.

Progress in general seems to hold little interest for people who call themselves 'progressives.' What arouses them are denunciations of social failures and accusations of wrong-doing.

So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress. . . . Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity.

As progressives we believe in affordable health care for all Americans.

For members of the Democratic Party, and progressives all over the world, it is difficult to overstate or hyperbolize the despair and dread that has descended upon them in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump.

The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong—it is obscene.

On any state elections map, the reservations are blue places. Native people are most often progressives, Democrats, and by no means gun-toting vigilantes.