Top 1200 Liberal Media Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

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

Only the Liberal Democrats have probed the government's failings consistently, thoroughly and effectively.

The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged.

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

In order to eliminate discrimination, the Modern Liberal has opted to become utterly indiscriminate.

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. We succeeded because the time was right and the news media cooperated. We sensationalized the effects of illegal abortions, and fabricated polls which indicated that 85 percent of the public favored unrestricted abortion, when we knew it was only 5 percent. We unashamedly lied, and yet our statements were quoted [by the media] as though they had been written in law.

Critical journalism has gone out of fashion, or rather, it has been bought out. And so, we have much less of it than we did during the Vietnam era, where there was very critical reporting on the Vietnam War and a lot of disagreement among the media. Now you find that the media are much more homogenous, converging because they all must cater to the same community of advertisers. It's sad to see.

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

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

My interest in time emerged out of an engagement with the media that I was working with. Film and performance are temporal media. They rely on time. When I'm carrying out a performance, it matters, for example, how long I hold one particular gesture or posture. Seriality is very important too. Performance can be used to dilate time or to repeat time. And video, in turn, has its own time.

A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.

Even if someone wanted a purely free-market, competitive media system, it would require extensive government regulation to set up those markets. All our largest media companies are based on the grant of explicit government monopoly privileges and licenses, or franchises, or subsidies. The government didn't come in after the system was in place, it built the system in the first place.

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

For podcasters, people are just being themselves in a public fashion. So when someone is attacking a podcast, they're really attacking the person, because the person is the podcast. So I think that's why podcasters take it to heart. It's a very personal form of media, probably the most personal form of media.

It's easier to set off a bomb that kills innocent civilians in a market than it is to plot an assassination, but that obviously was true before as well. I also think it's now easier to get attention for a small attack that goes off in a random market. It's almost like there's a marketplace for terror in the media, and these people are supplying the attacks, knowing that the media will cover them sensationally.

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

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

The Liberal Democrats will add a heart to a Conservative government and a brain to a Labour one.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

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

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

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

Could you do a liberal propaganda tool that would bore the bejesus out of people? No.

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

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

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!

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

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

The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.

I think there are a lot of people out there that are speculating in the stock market. They have all kinds of tech stocks or social media stocks. If you want to gamble in the stock market, I would much rather gamble on a mining stock than a social media stock.

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

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

You know, the only place in America where the millionaires and billionaires are predominantly liberal is here in Hollywood.

Journalism continues to go south, thanks to big media and its strangulation of news, and there's not much left in the way of community or local media. Add to that an internet that has not even started thinking seriously about how it supports journalism. You have these big companies like Google and Facebook who run the news and sell all the ads next to it, but what do they put back into journalism? It isn't much.

I try to use social media as a tool for good. Fortunately I can say that social media has treated me pretty well. I've been exempt from a lot of the mean comments. Of course it happens now and then. It's funny because let's say a rude or off-putting comment comes in, rather than ignore it, I'll talk to that person and there are so many times I've gotten apologies, like "I totally understand, I'm with you."

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.

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

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

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

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

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

The major media companies are playing a defensive game, and I'm not sure I blame them. If you look at the digital revolution, you look at who the winners and the losers are, there are some very very big losers - music, the newspaper industry. And there are some really big winners, social media, Facebook.

Race is a core reality of American experience. Media images on television need to reflect that reality to help people who consume media and who don't have the day-to-day, face-to-face contact with others, or where that contact is minimal, to help them have a greater appreciation of other experiences and how they're all part of the American fabric.

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

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 think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media.

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

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

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

Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.

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

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

I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.

We will continue to address things, but in as much as I want to talk about politics as they are related to social media, I don't necessarily want to be a political show. I want it to cover everything, everything in our culture through social media, politics, pop culture, entertainment, science, everything.