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

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

topic: Men, Progressive Society, Imperfect, Fulfilment

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

source: Source: www.democracynow.org

topic: Two, Progressive Society, Way, Enablers

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

- Angela Davis

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

topic: Art, People, Progressive Society, Emancipation

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

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

topic: Wise, Men, Law, Progressive Society

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 Dali

topic: Art, Character, People, Progressive Society, Emancipation

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

- Henry George

topic: Children, Clothes, Progress, Outgrowing, Progressive Society

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

- Ralph Nader

source: Source: www.democracynow.org

topic: Powerful, Block, Branches, Progressive Society

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

topic: People, Peaceful, Resistance, Progressive Society

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

- Doug Stanhope

topic: Progressive, Institutions, Progressive Society

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

topic: Homosexual Marriage, Talking, Would Be, Talking To Someone, Progressive Society

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

- Henry James Sumner Maine

source: Ancient Law ch. 5 (1861)

topic: Movement, Politics, Progressive, Progressive Society

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.

- Will Durant

topic: Numbers, Rivals, May, Progressive Society, Concentration Of Wealth

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

topic: Party, Kgb, Doctrine, Fed Up, Progressive Society