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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON LIBERALS
Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue of law and order.
Spiro T. Agnew (1918-1996, American Vice President)
A liberal man is one who gives the right thing at the right time to the right person.
Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek philosopher)
If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments -- we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
Malcolm Bradbury (1932-, British author)
There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this. Something like a profound suspension of judgment.
Roland Barthes (1915-1980, French semiologist)
There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this. Something like a profound suspension of judgment.
Roland Barthes (1915-1980, French semiologist)
The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.
Lenny Bruce (1925-1966, American comedian)
Cosmopolitan critics: men who are the friends of every country save their own.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British statesman, Prime Minister)
My objection to Liberalism is this -- that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind -- namely, politics -- of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British statesman, Prime Minister)
The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.
Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-, American author, columnist)
A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost (1875-1963, American poet)
Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1883-1955, Spanish essayist, philosopher)
A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
Carter Glass (1858-1946, American senator, representative, newspaper publisher)
Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.
Alexander Herzen (1812-1870, Russian journalist, political thinker)
Liberalism, above all, means emancipation -- emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination... from poverty.
Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978, American Vice President)
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968, American Civil Rights leader, Nobel Prize winner, 1964)
Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799, German physicist, satirist)
Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.
Norman Mailer (1923-, American author)
The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality or give up the battle in despair.
Margaret Mead (1901-1978, American anthropologist)
When anything goes, it's women who lose.
Camille Paglia (1947-, American author, critic, educator)
A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.
Gregory Nunn (1955-, American golfer)
The principle feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things -- war and hunger and date rape -- liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things. It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.
P. J. O'Rourke (1947-, American journalist)
A liberal is a power worshipper without the power.
George Orwell (1903-1950, British author, "Animal Farm")
A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal.
American Proverb (Sayings of American origin)
The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)
I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberators -- they fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?
Barbara Streisand (1942-, American singer, actress, director)
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back.
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910, Russian novelist, philosopher)
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
Lionel Trilling (1905-1975, American critic)
A liberal is a socialist with a wife and two children.
Author Unknown
The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. (It may not be as cozy an attitude as it sounds.) He greets with enthusiasm the fact of the journey, as a dog greets a man's invitation to take a walk. And he acts in the dog's way too, swinging wide, racing ahead, doubling back, covering many miles of territory that the man never traverses, all in the spirit of inquiry and the zest for truth. He leaves a crazy trail, but he ranges far beyond the genteel old party he walks with and he is usually in a better position to discover a skunk.
Elwyn Brooks White (1899-1985, American author, editor)
A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.
Thomas Wolfe (1931-, American author, journalist)
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933-, Russian poet)
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