Top 1200 Classical Liberalism Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I wouldn't know anything about opera music if it wasn't for Bugs Bunny. That was my entire introduction to opera music. I wouldn't know anything about classical music if it wasn't for "Fantasia." They didn't have to do that stuff. They chose to base this ridiculous, funny, intriguing, creative story on this beautiful classical music. It's the combination of the high and the low that I thought was very cool. But I had no concept of it as a kid.

True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism.

Religion is an affront to liberalism because it dares suggest it's not all about you.

You hear that liberalism lacks an idea of the common good, but I think that's a mistake.

Liberalism is part of a religious disorder that demands a belief that life is controllable.

The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.

Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

Liberalism is a cancer; it's a forest fire; it destroys every single thing it touches.

I think that one of the things that has happened is that psychiatry has become the religion of liberalism.

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.

Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown.

There are so many different ways to talk and think about art. We just spoke about when attitude becomes form. But when I was a kid, I had these two art teachers, a couple, who were continuing a line of very classical, atelier art training, and they instilled in me a sensitivity to all the classical verities of line, shape, color, texture, and composition, which is only engaging if you're making two-dimensional objects.

I used to do Korean classical music and started training to join an idol group after someone set me up an interview with my current agency. The common thing between Korean classical music and becoming a singer is that I get to go on stage which why I decided to get professional training for K-pop music without holding any bias.

Liberals don't believe that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. If they promoted that, there'd be no need for liberalism.

Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.

The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea

Being a classical musician I'm fascinated with how my colleagues, not just singers, but every musician finds ways to express something else or something new or the same ol', same ol' in classical music. I'm always in dialogue with other musicians at least orally, if I can't be with them and a lot of dead musicians as well. I've learned a lot from dead people on recordings.

All cultures are capable of democracy and liberalism. Everybody wants to be free.

Liberalism is a series of grievances in addition to everything else that it is.

Classical is a more refined and structured dance form. Folk is made for celebration. That's not a very competitive dance form. Though you can bring classical on stage, folk becomes limited. Like you would love to do bhangra and garba at parties, but when you see it on stage, it is very limited in terms of movements.

Extreme liberalism is not a political philosophy. It is a mental disorder.

Liberalism has never done as well as it thinks at resolving its own crises.

If you look at the image [ Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], it treads on a kind of popular stereotypical image of the black figure, in both its flatness and slightly comic edge. To take that image as a starting point and to render it in a proto-classical medium, like egg tempera, and then use a repertoire of classical compositional devices to make the picture was a way of setting up an engagement with art history.

What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.

Liberalism is a disease cured only by a lobotomy or 90 days in a third world country.

The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.

So much of contemporary liberalism seems to be never having grown up.

From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was.

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small 'l' liberalism.

There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."

Too much horsing around with unrealistic stances and classic forms and rituals is just too artificial and mechanical, and doesn't really prepare the student for actual combat. A guy could get clobbered while getting into this classical mess. Classical methods like these, which I consider a form of paralysis, only solidify and constrain what was once fluid. Their practitioners are merely blindly rehearsing routines and stunts that will lead nowhere.

Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity.

Don't you just hate it when the war on terrorism interferes with political correctness and liberalism's equality fetish?

Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.

Modern American liberalism is nothing but the socialism too stupid to recognize itself in the mirror.

We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.

Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism

The victory of liberalism enables them to sue their victors.

When I do things, like, with Josh Grobin, or he has so many fans, and I get people after my concerts, classical concerts, all the time coming back and saying, 'Never heard of you until I heard the song with Josh Grobin.' Then they're now classical music fans, which is something I think we need to reach a wider audience.

We shall experience the final defeat of liberalism not when immigration but when emigration is forbidden

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

Liberalism is [ CNN infobabes] religion; it's all a matter of faith. Nobody attacking it is gonna be listened to.

Identity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive.

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.

It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

Liberalism has become a moral vaccine that immunizes people against stigmatization.

I believe the default position in life is liberalism. You have to work at being a Conservative.

[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.

Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.

Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.

Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown

For the average American, the message is clear. Liberalism is no longer the answer. It is the problem.

One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.