Ideas Quote by Harold MacMillan

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Whenever I hear people talking about "liberal ideas," I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

— Lady Bird Johnson

I think liberals have a lot of good ideas, actually. But I've been pigeonholed, and I'm quite comfortable with it.

— Roger Ailes

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Sound doctrine is sound politics.

— Morton Blackwell

If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.

— Roger Zelazny

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

I feel like these sounds are the ultimate kind of free sounds, the ultimate public domain sounds. And I feel like people put them…

— Julia Kent

Liberals cannot win in the battle of ideas, so they resort to banning or suppressing ideas they don't like.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

Always I have lived with two sounds - one political, one musical.

— Mikis Theodorakis

Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.

— John Cage