Liberal Quotes

1001 Liberal quotes by 702 unique authors

The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other… — Edward H. Levi
A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality. — Irving Kristol
Nixon was a conservative who’s way more liberal than his party can admit, and Obama’s a liberal who’s way more conservative than his party can… — John Fugelsang
Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active… — John Searle
I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us. — Studs Terkel
Go to Fox News for conservative, maybe go to msnbc for liberal, and be right here on CNN for the God's honest truth. — Anthony Weiner
The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West .… — Billy Graham
The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us. — Eleanor Roosevelt
A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before. — Frank Rizzo
I didn't realize quite how liberal I was until I was asked to make passionate comedic choices as opposed to necessarily successful comedic choices. — Stephen Colbert
It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand. — Mike Royko
The progressive and liberal mindset believes that to every problem there is a Washington, D.C., solution, — Jeb Bush
I am a liberal. I want everyone to be well. — Diego Della Valle
A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs… — Wendell Berry
No one can know how long this dumbing-down of American religion will persist. But so long as it does, citizens should probably be more vigilant… — Mark Lilla
The chattering bloody classes, or what I call the liberal Guardian readers, they're all buying SUVs to drive around London. I smile at these loons… — Michael O'Leary
If being tolerant of differing opinions, if believing that America has to make it as a pluralistic nation, if being civil, if that makes you… — Bill Moyers
The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities… — Milton Friedman
I think the more you have a generalist perspective, I think sometimes the more you can kind of see through the forest and the trees.… — Steve Case
One of the essential differences between the liberal and conservative worldview is that the liberals believe in rationality, whereas conservative believe that human events are… — Thom Hartmann
The trouble with politics and political coverage today is that there's too much liberal bias.... There's too much tilt toward the left-wing agenda. Too much… — William Kristol
The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures. — William Kristol
The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. ‘They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading,… — Oliver DeMille
In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been… — Lincoln Kirstein
In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the… — Michael Ignatieff

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