#liberal

No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#causes #crimes #effects #how #i

The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts. ↗

— Edward Levi

#college #genuine #giving #liberal #liberal arts

I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#accusing #doctor #does #i #idea

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#creative #encouraging #liberal #our #own

If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#anything #committed #does #everyone #field

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#commandments #god #had #liberal #suggestions

Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so I'm not really sure why Harper's concerned that the court is currently being stacked with a lot of Liberal appointments. ↗

— Alan Young

#appointments #being #bench #concerned #court

NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#corporations #missionaries #neoliberalism #ngos #anger

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#liberal-arts #machines #art

[W]hat counts as ‘realistic’, what seems possible at any point in the social field, is defined by a series of political determinations. An ideological position can never be really successful until it is naturalized, and it cannot be naturalized while it is still thought of as a value rather than a fact. Accordingly, neoliberalism has sought to eliminate the very category of value in the ethical sense. Over the past thirty years, capitalist realism has successfully installed a ‘business ontology’ in which it is simply obvious that everything in society, including healthcare and education, should be run as a business. … [E]mancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’, must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable to be a mere contingency, just as it must make what was previously deemed to be impossible seem attainable. ↗

— Mark Fisher

#capitalist-realism #ideology #nature #neoliberalism #possibility