Liberal Quotes
1001 quotes by 717 authors
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Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out…
— Karen Armstrong
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I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!
— Lauren Bacall
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
— Alain Badiou
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A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
— Amiri Baraka
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your…
— P T Barnum
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Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.
— Glenn Beck
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A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright,…
— Leonard Bernstein
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A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.
— Annie Besant
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I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches…
— Annie Besant
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A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant…
— Annie Besant
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it's my kind of politics. It's like being Jewish in front of Jewish people.
— Elayne Boosler
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
— Malcolm Bradbury
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People don't know I've got a deep social conscience. I'm a child of the Depression, born in 1933. My parents were very liberal in their…
— Eli Broad
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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…
— Julie Burchill
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Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.
— George W. Bush
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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
— Stokely Carmichael
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Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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