#ogres

France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#circles #deaf #demands #ear #france

Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties. ↗

— Peter Camejo

#america #been #brought #existence #feel

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress. ↗

— John Clapham

#economic #human #human progress #progress #same

In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons. ↗

— Ruth First

#banned #book #both #communicating #discuss

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress. ↗

— Charles Fourier

#basic #basic principle #extension #principle #progress

It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with. ↗

— Robert Gibbs

#continuing #crisis #dealing #eight #end

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#come #even #men #most #movies

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side. ↗

— B. H. Liddell Hart

#dead #drain #fruitful #his #kill

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#because #begun #books #makes #many

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#become #conventional #conventional wisdom #federal #government