Astounded Quote by 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

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 is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems…

— Edward Young

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

— Roger Zelazny

A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than…

— Will Rogers

Conservative ideas don't just sound good. They actually work. That's the secret of our success.

— Bobby Jindal

I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.

— Bruce Willis

Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The…

— James Burnham

Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like…

— Joseph Sobran

The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to…

— Dennis Prager

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on…

— Gloria Steinem

... All ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add to our…

— John Stuart Mill