#liberal

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

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place. ↗

— John G. Diefenbaker

#head #liberals #make #never #nor

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals. ↗

— Charles Trevelyan

#evils #greatest #growth #hammer #i

He was my favorite senator... I love him. He made the liberals squeal. ↗

— Robert Novak

#him #i #i love #liberals #love

This is not about being liberal. This is not about being conservative. This is about making sure our government works for all Americans. ↗

— Francine Busby

#all americans #being #conservative #government #liberal

[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

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

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#act #civil #civil society #heart #liberal

Everyone knows, even the smallest kid knows about Martin Luther King Jr., can say his most famous moment was that 'I have a dream speech. No one can go further than one sentence. All we know is that this had a dream. We do not know what the dream was'. ↗

— Henry Louis Taylor Jr.

#martin-luther-king-jr #post-ideology #r #dreams