#ogres

Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#adventure #always #good #guarantee #inevitability

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

#also #art #assist #character #emancipation

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ↗

— Will Durant

#discovery #ignorance #our #own #progressive

It's good to look at life from the bottom up so you can see that things have risen above what they once were. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#life #life-lessons #outlook #perspective #progress

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#being #equal #equals #every #except

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. ↗

— Voltaire

#man #ocean #progress #rapid #rivers

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#alteration #american #american revolution #animated #annihilated

The burden of proof is now on the Palestinians... They must fight terrorism and dismantle its infrastructures in order to make possible progress on the roadmap. ↗

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

#dismantle #fight #infrastructures #make #must

In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#evolution #forward #happy #healthy #i

I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming. ↗

— Peter Camejo

#been #candidate #debate #ever #first