Top 1200 Modern Liberalism Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

Canonization in modern times is a very, almost scientific process.

Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work of a few gangsters or the creation of a pack of criminals we call a political party. The appeal of Socialism, Fascism and communism was principally negative; they were protests against a live and let live anything goes liberalism, a spineless indifference to causes, a failure to recognize that nothing was evil enough to hate, and nothing was good enough to die for.

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world.

I mean, I think all teachers are basically modern-day heroes.

To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.

What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.

I can tell any liberal why he or she thinks what they think. I can predict to them what their reaction to any event or person is going to be, because I know them, because I have taken the time because I'm curious to study it. I know what liberalism is. I know from where it springs and derives, and I know the vast majority of people who are liberals, what they are going to do, say, and think about.

No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.

I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.

Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

What is the world coming to, with these modern women? A man can't tell them what to do.

People are proud of their tattoos. It's like a modern coat of arms.

Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the part of the United States, thus opposing any action in the real world to resist Soviet expansionism. If the Democrats were, as he advocates, to return to the Trumanesque anti-totalitarian liberalism that held sway in the party from roughly 1947 to 1972, the party and the country would be better off.

My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.

The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.

The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things.... It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.

Ben Hogan is the most merciless of all the modern golfers.

The modern holy trinity is money, sex and celebrity.

Financial dependence on the state is the foundation of modern serfdom.

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.

If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.

Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.

Canada's most important -- that is to say consequential -- modern voice.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

I think our seniors deserve a modern medical system.

Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.

I think of myself as California modern, and I'm hugely inspired by nature.

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

I love Modern Family but it's among a handful of favorite shows.

To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

The modern day soup line is a check in the mail.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

I've always thought of L.A. as the modern version of 'The Garden of Earthly Delights.'

I never understood liberal Jews blaming Israel, you know, supporting Palestinians. I've never understood it, until I spoke once to a man named Norman Podhoretz, and he said to me, "Many of you refer to liberal Jews that way. They're not Jews. They are liberals. Liberalism is what is first and foremost in their identity. The fact that they are Jews is not paramount or prominent. It's secondary - and, in many cases, even tertiary - to their identity."

You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society.

See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

Margaret Thatcher was Britain's most controversial modern politician.

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

Neckties satisfy modern man's desire to dress in art.

Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

The position of Prussia in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism but by its power ... Prussia must concentrate its strength and hold it for the favorable moment, which has already come and gone several times. Since the treaties of Vienna, our frontiers have been ill-designed for a healthy body politic. Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be decided - that was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849 - but by iron and blood (Eisen und Blut).

One of the problems in modern comics is that they keep referencing themselves endlessly.

Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world.

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.