Top 1200 Modern Liberalism Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.

Liberalism is a cancer; it's a forest fire; it destroys every single thing it touches.

I know there's similar dissatisfaction in America. There's a lot of white people who come from blue collar backgrounds and who feel ill-equipped and badly served by modern economics and the modern job market.

I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern thinker, but I don't know what demons drove him.

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.

In China the struggle to consolidate the socialist system, the struggle to decide whether socialism or capitalism will prevail, will still take a long historical period. However, we should all realize that the new system of socialism will unquestionably be consolidated. We can assuredly build a socialist state with modern industry, modern agriculture, and modern science and culture.

Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.

At the peak of his scientific triumphs, Newton became a 'head,' a student of the inner spiritual world - or in modern terms, a neurologician. Modern physicists do not dwell on this dramatic life-change in their hero.

There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."

[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.

An aspect of 'post-modern' approach to history is to include the mistakes and the prejudices of the era, without modernizing them or 'correcting' them according to our modern ideals.

At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore.

Through the miracles of modern medicine George Burns still chases pretty girls, and through the miracle of modern psychiatry he intends to find out why!

I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.

From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was.

Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?

Don't you just hate it when the war on terrorism interferes with political correctness and liberalism's equality fetish?

The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy , the motion and the other inner forces ... the modern artist is working with space and time , and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

The modern dance is no dance in the first place, and when you've finally learned it, it's not modern any more.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

Fourier's theorem is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but it may be said to furnish an indispensable instrument in the treatment of nearly every recondite question in modern physics.

An accomplished woman is one who has a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages; she must be well trained in the fighting styles of the Kyoto masters and the modern tactics and weaponry of Europe.

Liberals don't believe that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. If they promoted that, there'd be no need for liberalism.

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.

Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.

Using modern guitar techniques and modern methods on an early instrument is not a very clever thing to do, because it is the authentic spirit of the instrument that should dictate the quality and characteristic of the sound.

Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.

Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to combat the stress and exhaustion of modern life.

Liberalism is a disease cured only by a lobotomy or 90 days in a third world country.

What 'Strong Island' does is bring a historical perspective and help people understand that what we're treating as a modern-day phenomenon is actually not modern. It's actually quite old.

It is often said that in today's modern and postmodern world that the forces of darkness are upon us. But I think not; in the Dark and the Deep there are truths that can always heal. It is not the forces of darkness but of shallowness that everywhere threaten the true, and the good, and the beautiful, and that ironically announce themselves as deep and profound. It is an exuberant and fearess shallowness that everywhere is the modern danger, the modern threat, and that everywhere nonetheless calls to us as savior.

During the 1980s, many people mistook Thatcherism and Reaganism - actually a wild form of liberalism - for conservatism.

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'

I call my design style rustically modern. I like to take traditional or rustic features and fuse it into a more modern design.

A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.

Liberalism is [ CNN infobabes] religion; it's all a matter of faith. Nobody attacking it is gonna be listened to.

Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown

Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity.

Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown.

I love 'Modern Family; I think that is a great show. I don't get to watch tons of TV, but when I do, 'Sons of Anarchy' is pretty much the number one, and 'Modern Family' is one of my favorites.

We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol of the city. In the modern world, its place could be taken by the university.

Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing those systems so crude in their structure that they are not subject to temporal variables.

The modern woman has a modern life, and most of us work. There's no time to change before we go out in the evening, so a dress should always look appropriate for day and night.

To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.

What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?

It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.