Progressive Ideology Quotes

“This is not a debate about just anything', he said 'but about sanity itself'.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Increasing technologies, globalisation, and wealth, along with sedentary jobs, have led to a much less active lifestyle for many humans, with consequences for general health and increasing rates of overweight and obesity. This lack of exercise coupled with malnutrition, specifically referring here to poor-quality, obesogenic diets, are thought to be responsible for epidemics of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs).”
― Kimberly A. Plomp, Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

“White savior narratives embedded in feminist rhetoric tend to position the people who don't get out as not being worth the effort of engagement, of needing to be led toward progressive ideologies instead of understanding that the conversations that need to happen between the proverbial hood and the hills are ones between equals who have had to face different obstacles to arrive at the same destination.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

“When people of color violate edicts of progressive orthodoxy, they become white supremacists. Obviously.”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“The reason for high rates of black poverty and crime is not -systemic racism-, but the absence of fathers in the lives of so many black families. The research showing that this is true is vast and has been known for decades, even if progressives prefer to ignore it or deny it or blame -systemic racism-.”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“Cultural difference, therefore, is predicated not only across space but also across time. The colonial ideology of progress includes the drive for technological process, and figures time as linear, with technologically progressive societies pushing forward and leaving others behind. The dynamic of past and future is therefore complicated and folded over on itself; the colonised are seen almost literally as not only figures from history but as figures from the colonizer's own past, objects of simultaneous reverence and scorn as primitives.”
― Jessica Langer, Postcolonialism and Science Fiction