Liberal Quotes

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

I don't care if you're Republican or a Democrat or a Liberal, getting crucified for the way you think or believe, obviously if it's not hurting anyone, it's just Un-American.

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.

The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition of dogma: isn't it rather tremendous?

Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.

The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.

Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.

The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

When you've got somebody who's a flaming liberal like Bill Maher calling you out, something's wrong.

I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

I'm a liberal arts junkie.

Well, I am not afraid of the word 'liberal.'

Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper.

Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.

If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.

My family had liberal positions.