Top 1200 Liberal Democracy Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I do think, from the other side, that George W. ush was somewhat of an innocent in his thinking about what Ronald Reagan did during the Cold War and by bringing democracy to Eastern Europe. I think he believed that he could do the same thing by bringing democracy - or Midland, Texas, really - to the Middle East. I truly think he felt it was possible. "I want to do for the Middle East what Reagan did for the Soviet Union."

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

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

I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Fascism goes back to our infancy and childhood, where we were always told how to live. We were told, Yes, you may do this; no, you may not do that. So the secret of fascism is that it has this appeal to people whose later lives are not satisfactory.

A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.

It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.

The protesters have called into question whether there is a real democracy. Real democracy is more than the right to vote once every two or four years. The choices have to be meaningful. But increasingly, and especially in the US, it seems that the political system is more akin to "one dollar one vote" than to "one person one vote". Rather than correcting the market failures, the political system was reinforcing them.

I have yet to met a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the unessentials.

The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats.

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

The problems that exist on Wall Street today go to the center of a debate in this country about wealth and democracy. We cannot keep our democracy if those who are in charge of handling the engines of our economy are not honest with their shareholders. That's why there is a role for government regulation here. That role for government is breaking up the monopolies, insisting on public disclosure, insisting on public audits, insisting on restitution whenever someone has been cheated.

Nobody has a right now to say that the Hindus are not liberal to a fault.

I am not a liberal who is so afraid of the word that I had to change my name to progressive.

This liberal doxy must be impaled upon the member of a particularly large stallion.

My strong pitch is that under the Liberal National government you'll have stronger, better future.

It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.

If had to label myself, I guess classical liberal would be best.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

In a democracy, every ordinary citizen is effectively a king--but a king in a constitutional democracy, a monarch who decides only formally, whose function is merely to sign off on measures proposed by an executive administration. This is why the problem with democratic rituals is homologous to the great problem of constitutional monarchy: how to protect the dignity of the king? How to maintain the appearance that the king effectively makes decisions, when we all know this not to be true?

Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal.

The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle.

Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic

You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.

Barack Obama basically ran as a liberal suburban Republican.

Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only when the people - women, men, young people, children - have the ability to change the system of industrial capitalism that has oppressed them since the earliest days of slavery: a system based on class division, patriarchy, and military might, a hierarchical system that subjugates people merely because they are born poor, or female, or dark-skinned.

I come from a single-parent family and my Mum is super liberal.

I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.

A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.

I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.

I'm basically a libertarian, and I'm a conservative on economic matters, and I'm a social liberal.

I consider myself neither liberal nor conservative when it comes to foreign policy.

America did not need to be discovered because quite simply America had the American-Indians. There were whole groups of people that already lived there including very developed societies such as the Incas, the Aztecs, and the Mayans. But then came the European vision that saw the conquest as a source of advanced growth away from medieval Europe. The new revolutionary bourgeois trend formed a new perspective on what was democracy that they saw as an improvement to the democracy of ancient Greece.

My grandmother is very liberal, but... she still has her opinions.

In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility.

There's kind of a hidden point which isn't being brought out, and that is that it is inconceivable that the U.S. would permit democracy in the Middle East, and for a very simple reason. Just take a look at polls of Arab public opinion. They exist. You can't find them in the press, but they exist from prestigious polling agencies. Released by major institutions. And what they show is that if there was democracy in the Middle East, the entire U.S. program for domination of the Middle East would be down the tube.

Democracy has become, unless I mistake, a kind of test or shibboleth, by which we try men and measures; and this is the same as to say that it is merely a word which is powerful with us, and not the wide and true notion of what the word means. But we must define the true import of words, and not be slaves to syllables; for democracy in form is not necessarily people-power in fact, but power perhaps of a few, who cajole the many and so lead and use the people for their own ends.

The fact is that we are, compared to most other places, a very liberal country.

As you know, in this democracy, in order to have a healthy democracy, we have to get to the common good. But the only way to get to the common good is if we have a common set of facts, which we don't seem to have today, and we have a common level of decency. And my problem with the president and what happened today and why I think it affects the country as a whole is, first, we bring up our kids better than this. We teach them not to do this. We tell them not to do this, and it is not the right standard of behavior.

I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from Mississippi.

My liberal friends are such a bunch soft-headed, politically correct jerks.

I don't mind being called a liberal. I just don't really think it's true.

I've always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves.

Unity among like-minded liberal democracies is paramount.

My character and my behavior is not for politics. I say what I think. I'm too liberal.

Now we're in a situation where democracy has been taken into the workshop and fixed, remodeled to be market-friendly. So now the United States is fighting wars to instal democracies. First it was topple them, now it's instal them, right? And this whole rise of corporate-funded NGOs in the modern world, this notion of CSR, corporate social responsibility - it's all part of a New Managed Democracy. In that sense, it's all part of the same machine.

Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.

Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal.

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal.

I was very identified with and accused of being a neo-liberal with respect to the economy.

To describe Russian politics as "managed democracy" - and that's sometimes hard for outsiders to understand, because a lot of the forms of democracy exist in Russia, so there are elections; there is a press; there is a campaign, and so on. But the outcome of the campaign is never in doubt. So the campaign is manipulated. There is a real opposition in Russia. There are one or two real opposition figures who do want to change the political system, but they will probably not be allowed to run, and one way or another they will be prevented from being on the ballot.

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

Australia is much more liberal in accepting de facto relationships than the U.S.

One area of liberal phenomenon I support is female bi-sexuality.

Liberal Democrats will not rest until we have stopped Brexit.

My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.

The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract.

The progressive and liberal mindset believes that to every problem there is a Washington, D.C., solution.