#liberal

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

If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#fascism #government #liberalism #political #politics

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#conservative #distinguished #enamored #evils #existing

Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not. ↗

— Judith Martin

#believe #between #come #conservatives #country

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#democracy #neoliberalism #design

No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one. ↗

— George Seldes

#fascism #liberalism #education

A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within. ↗

— Ann Radcliffe

#education

[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others. ↗

— John Rawls

#liberalism #liberty #equality