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Quotes About Liberal

The reason to split a court is for administrative purposes, and in the past there has been much debate about the liberal decisions of the Ninth Circuit and so forth; and people have wanted to get out of the Ninth Circuit for that reason.
~ Mike Simpson
Like it or not, liberal radio hosts fail miserably in the spoken word format.
~ Mike Gallagher
The liberal says the end of religion is to make man happy while he's alive. And the fundamentalist says the end of religion is to make man happy when he dies.
~ Paris Reidhead
Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to prepare them to make a good use of their freedom.
~ John Dewey
A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.
~ Edmond Rostand
All that Democrat/Republican stuff is bullshit, he said. And as far as liberal versus conservative, well, people are very promiscuous in the way the use those words. They don't really mean anything. Within those two camps there are very wide divisions. And between those two camps, there is a lot more overlap than you think. None of that bullshit really matters. The only thing that matters is values.
~ Neal Stephenson
young people at Western schools and universities have been given the idea of a liberal education, without the substance of historical knowledge. They have been taught isolated 'modules', not narratives, much less chronologies. They have been trained in the formulaic analysis of document excerpts, not in the key skill of reading widely and fast.
~ Niall Ferguson
Without the spread of British rule around the world, it is hard to believe that the structures of liberal capitalism would have been so successfully established in so many different economies around the world.
~ Niall Ferguson
Los profesores que otrora habían abrazado las doctrinas nazis ahora abrazaban las de la OTAN; la mayoría conservó su trabajo. La primera evidencia importante de cambio cultural fue el surgimiento de una prensa liberal, pero fue tanto obra de los ciudadanos del país ocupado como de los ocupantes, cuyo papel fue permisivo en lo fundamental.
~ Niall Ferguson
If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
~ Tom Wolfe
It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'
~ Frank Gaffney
A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, and a libertarian is a conservative who's been indicted.
~ Jack Abramoff
It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.
~ Stockwell Day
I don't consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs.
~ Matt Dillon
President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions want to change the false Black Lives Matter narrative, but it doesn't look like they will have many allies among liberal mayors and their police commanders.
~ Heather Mac Donald
Under Nasser, Egyptian nationalism was built on little more than pan-Arab irredentism and anti-Western and anti-Israeli sentiment. Mr. Mubarak retained these powerful brainwashers and allowed the rise of a religious component to further alienate Egyptians from liberal and democratic thinking.
~ Andre Aciman
Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.
~ Ezekiel Emanuel
The anemic liberal class continues to assert, despite ample evidence to the contrary, that human freedom and equality can be achieved through the charade of electoral politics and constitutional reform.
~ Chris Hedges
The official Fascist intellectuals were mainly engaged in attacking modern culture and the liberal intelligentsia for having betrayed traditional values.
~ Chris Hedges
For once the callous heart of the corporate state is exposed, so is the callous heart of its liberal apologists. And the rebel, who has few friends, is the constant target of the liberal establishment
~ Chris Hedges
George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Because the persecuting majority is vile, says the liberal, therefore the persecuted minority must be stainlessly pure. Can't you see what nonsense that is? What's to prevent the bad from being persecuted by the worse? Did all the Christian victims in the arena have to be saints?
~ Christopher Isherwood
Lanny smiled to himself. His chief called himself a "liberal," and Lanny had been trying to make up his mind just what that meant. He decided that a liberal was a high-minded gentleman who believed the world was made in his own image.
~ Upton Sinclair
This is, of course, an easy Berlinian riposte. Start with some graceful hand waving about incommensurability; declare that nothing could reconcile these great goods; and (with a tip of trilby) commend liberal pluralism for living with the contradictions.
~ Kwame Anthony Appiah