Top 1200 Liberal Democracy Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

It's awfully hard to get into the head of a liberal. Instead of logic and reason, they are drawn to emotions and feelings.

I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!

I am from an F.D.R. liberal-Democratic family. With proximity to government, I have become more libertarian.

All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.

A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

You can vote Liberal or Labor and you’ll get exactly the same amount of funding for your school

I'm not allowed to be as liberal as I would like to be, you know? I'd do a lot more damage if I could!

I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans.

I was born into such a loving, caring family who were super liberal and supported me no matter what.

A conservative, a liberal, and a moderate walk into a bar. The bartender says, 'Hi, Mitt.'

Black America Has Allowed Itself to Be Used by Race-Baiters and White Liberal Elitists

Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.

As for my stand, I think it has become difficult in our country to be a Hindu and a liberal at the same time.

More debt interest, higher taxes, a smaller GDP. That is the Liberal plan.

I went to a liberal arts college wherein grading was qualitative and we had to write our own evaluations.

Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.

The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States.

One of my main reasons for going to college is to try to get a liberal arts background.

Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.

Arab nation, Egypt, is not mentioned [in the Muslim Ban]? This is where facts are optional for the liberal media.

It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians.

Of all rewards none [is] more liberal than those given to secret agents.

Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.

It's our job as Liberal Democrats to be an effective opposition - and an increasingly tough one as well.

Books alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully.

Hollywood is full of very liberal people, but it still has an infrastructure that needs to be broken.

Not being a liberal, I have very little grasp of things that I know nothing about.

Most media leaders are liberal and much of their programming reflects anti-Christian sentiment.

The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty.

When it comes to the liberal agenda, it's more important to pigeonhole people than it is to speak the truth.

In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends.

The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which, by precept and example, must be inculcated in the hearts and minds of all Americans if the institutions of our democracy are to be maintained and perpetuated. We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.

I come from extremely liberal people, one of only 20 in Texas where I grew up.

Only in Washington can the pursuit of a conservative agenda, with centrist policies, be depicted as liberal reform.

I am very liberal and fairly exhibitionistic. I don't really have a problem with nudity or anything like that.

I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do.

The opposing tendencies of concentration and spread are of little consequence in the liberal model of political economy.

Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

I don't read 'Vanity Fair,' whose millionaire-fashionista-liberal shtick I find repellent.

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

Europe sees itself as a liberal-minded society. It has no desire to be, nor can it be, a "Christian club.

I live in Brooklyn and work in Manhattan, two of the most liberal places in the country.

Like it or not, liberal radio hosts fail miserably in the spoken word format.

I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.

Talk loud enough about human rights and it gives the impression of democracy at work, justice at work. There was a time when the United States waged war to topple democracies, because back then democracy was a threat to the Free Market. Countries were nationalising their resources, protecting their markets.... So then, real democracies were being toppled. They were toppled in Iran, they were toppled all across Latin America, Chile.

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs.

My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.

We grew up in the South, but in a very liberal household - both our parents are from the Northeast.

My parents were young and liberal and knew I was going to drink anyway, so they let me do it at home.

That's one of the problems with this country: they put you in a box. You're a Republican, you're a Democrat, you're conservative, you're liberal. And that's really unfair.

If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.

I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year.

By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist.

If a liberal News channel were launched it would fall flat on its face.

Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.

I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.

Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.