Regressive Society Quotes & Sayings

Most successful one was that of tarring his fence all around; after which, if a slave was caught — Frederick Douglass

Young women and young men grow up, but old women and old men just grow older and surer they've got right on their side. — Stephen King

The dogged effort to "denaturalize" gender in this text emerges, I think, from a strong desire both to counter the normative violence implied by ideal morphologies of sex and to uproot the pervasive assumptions about natural or presumptive heterosexuality that are informed by ordinary and academic discourses on sexuality. The writing of this denaturalization was not done simply out of a desire to play with language or prescribe theatrical antics in the place of "real" politics, as some critics have conjectured (as if theatre and politics are always distinct). It was done from a desire to live, to make life possible, and to rethink the possible as such. — Judith Butler

There is not a single loophole or curveball or open trench to fall into for the man or woman who walks the path that Christ walks. When He says, "Come, Follow Me" (Luke 18:22), He means that He knows where the quicksand is and where the thorns are and the best way to handle the slippery slope near the summit of our personal mountains. He knows it all, and He knows the way. He is the way. — Jeffrey R. Holland

No! That's not the way! This is not the time! Hold it back! Tame it! Don't waste it! Send it back! It'll come when you call! — Terry Pratchett

As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine. — Quentin Blake

Do good things; be kind all your days.18 — Razzab Ali Shaikh

You learn from experiences, and I suppose that's where I color most of my music, from experiences. — Pharrell Williams

Significantly, Smith singled out its socially regressive character. First, wages for the majority of people were miserably low: Though the wealth of a country should be very great, yet if it has been long stationary, we must not expect to find the wages of labour very high in it . . . It is in the progressive state, while the society is advancing to the further acquisition, rather than when it has acquired its full complement of riches, that the condition of the labouring poor, of the great body of the people, seems to be the — Niall Ferguson

Progressive policies lead to a regressive society. — Ilana Mercer

I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now. — Ann Beattie

Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream? — Edgar Rice Burroughs

I can't help thinking
Suppose the world was made for happiness after all. — Elizabeth Bowen