Community Quote by Philip Seymour Hoffman

“Liberalism within ourselves is always the enemy.”

— Jonathan Bowden

But when you meet with the enemy and genuinely try to understand his or her perspective, you lose the enemy as a political tool.…

— S.E. Cupp

“Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the…

— Clint Eastwood

“The image of identity we must daily fight to impress on the neutral, or hostile, world collapses inward: we feel crushed. Burdened”

— Linda Wagner-Martin

“If we can focus on making clear what parts of our day are within our control and what parts are not, we will not…

— Ryan Holiday

“The narrow, middle, common-ground is the life-raft in a turbulent sea of extremism. We are overwhelmed by common hopes.”

— Bryant McGill

“we believe ourselves to be a tolerant people even as racial, religious, and cultural tensions roil the landscape. And instead of resolving these tensions…

— Barack Obama

People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“That is why in this time of heightened threats, we must remain vigilant and work together as closely as possible if we are to…

— Historica Press

“Extremists and their supports cause you to align yourself with something you're not in order to get as far away as possible from the…

— Sloane Crosley

If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed…

— Daniel Keys Moran

Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are legions in a single…

— Jonathan Schell