Top 1200 Liberal Democracy Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

We have to abandon liberal methods and principles of organizing a society.

The thirst to know and understand a large and liberal discontent.

MSNBC will never be as liberal as Fox is conservative.

Brattleboro is a very small town, but it's pretty liberal.

A modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do, as long as it's compulsory.

I'm a broadcaster who happens to be liberal, and not the other way around.

You need to have a liberal point of view for a society to grow.

You can't get past the liberal press with a bucket of ink.

The great achievement of liberal Protestantism was to make God boring.

My dad grew up in southern California and was a raging liberal.

In a really equal democracy, every or any section would be represented, not disproportionately, but proportionately. ... Unless they are, there is not equal government, but a government of inequality and privilege: one part of the people rule over the rest: there is a part whose fair and equal share of influence in the representation is withheld from them, contrary to all just government, but, above all, contrary to the principle of democracy, which professes equality as its very root and foundation.

I'm a right-wing fiscal conservative and a social liberal.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

The greatest betrayal of the liberal left in this country is by the Labour party.

Jews are the most liberal, scrappy, civil-rightsy people there are.

Nothing penetrates the liberal's sense of moral outrage.

Liberal democratic states can't remain globally competitive.

I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself.

I wouldn't characterise myself as a bleeding heart liberal, whatever that is.

The truth is, I am conservative, but socially, I'm very liberal.

This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.

I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

The definition of a Racist is anybody winning an argument with a liberal.

I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States.

You can be a liberal and accept same-sex marriage and all that, but that's your business.

Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.

Blacks Bought A Lot Of Propaganda On The Liberal Plantation.

Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.

The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.

A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.

Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans.

In Cuba, what we do not accept is the comparison of our participatory democracy with bourgeois democracy which has not solved anything for humanity. The only thing it has done is to take humanity towards a precarious point. They have created the environmental crisis, the food crisis, the water crisis and the pandemics all over the world. The reason for that is because they have taken the majority of the resources and given it to militarism paid for by the western powers because it is a great business for them; this is the real truth.

LIBERAL, n. A man with his mind open at both ends.

The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces different first principles, making debate impossible: and debate is the life of democracy; (3) because the fading of the images of sacred persons leaves a man too prone to be a respecter of earthly persons; (4) because there will be more, not less, respect for human rights if they can be treated as divine rights.

I'm happy to talk to liberal media, and we often have good conversations.

An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.

Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.

Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.

Evidence and expertise have a well-known liberal bias.

My anti-liberal position should not be mistaken for conservatism.

My side, I am a liberal more than a Democrat.

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

We went to a very liberal Episcopalian church. It didn't take for me.

There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.

Money power cannot be separated from democratic power without miscarriage and ensuing frustration - political and economic. Democracy implies the sovereignty of man; and, since man cannot be sovereign without the money power, there can not be democracy under the political money system.

News reporters are certainly liberal and left of center.

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

I guess blustery liberal Republicans flock together.

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

I promoted myself as a fusion ticket. I was running as a Republican liberal.

You can say you're a liberal and everybody laughs and it's a good time.

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.