Quotes about liberals




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"Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue of law and order."

Agnew, Spiro T. on liberals    Share


"There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this. Something like a profound suspension of judgment."

Barthes, Roland on liberals    Share

"If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments -- we'd have the Ten Suggestions."

Bradbury, Malcolm on liberals
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"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."

Bruce, Lenny on liberals    Share

"As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women."

Burchill, Julie on liberals    Share

"A liberal is man who will give away everything he doesn't own."

Dane, Frank on liberals    Share

"My objection to Liberalism is this -- that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind -- namely, politics -- of philosophical ideas instead of political principles."

Disraeli, Benjamin on liberals    Share

"Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own."

Disraeli, Benjamin on liberals    Share

"The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on liberals    Share

"A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel."

Frost, Robert on liberals    Share

"Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on liberals    Share

"A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money."

Glass, Carter on liberals
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"Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it."

Herzen, Alexander on liberals    Share

"Liberalism, above all, means emancipation -- emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination... from poverty."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on liberals    Share

"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate."

King Jr. Martin Luther on liberals
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"Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on liberals
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"Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs."

Mailer, Norman on liberals
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"The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality or give up the battle in despair."

Mead, Margaret on liberals    Share

"The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building."

Mussolini, Benito on liberals    Share

"A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon."

Nunn, Gregory on liberals    Share

"A liberal is a power worshipper without the power."

Orwell, George on liberals
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"When anything goes, it's women who lose."

Paglia, Camille on liberals    Share

"A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal."

Proverb, American on liberals    Share

"The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment."

Russell, Bertrand on liberals    Share

"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on liberals    Share

"We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us."

Trilling, Lionel on liberals    Share

"A liberal is a socialist with a wife and two children."

Unknown, Source on liberals    Share

"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested."

Wolfe, Thomas on liberals    Share

"Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?"

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny on liberals    Share

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

Frost, Robert on liberals
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