#liberal

To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives. ↗

— Emil Cioran

#individuality #liberalism #philosophy #freedom

But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#i think #liberal #paper #think #times

A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross. ↗

— H. Richard Niebuhr

#men

Judas became the spokesman of all those who through the centuries would protest the ornamentation of the Christian cult and would feel that, when the best of gold and jewels were given to the God Who made them, there was some slight made to the poor - not because they were interested in the poor, but because they were envious of that wealth. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#liberalism #money #social-gospel #socialism #money

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America. ↗

— Barack Obama

#conservative #liberal #states #united #united states

For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled or ruined, because all around them, society was still wrong. Show a girl a pioneering hero - Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc - and you also, more often than not, show a girl a woman who was eventually crushed. ↗

— Caitlin Moran

#women-s-liberation #liberalism

Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves. ↗

— Allen West

#assumes #best #better #care #each

My family had liberal positions. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#had #liberal #positions

I think that there's a liberal element out there that finds me not acceptable. They don't like my stance on a lot of issues because I am conservative. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#am #because #conservative #element #finds

The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#liberals #people #them #understand #who