#liberal

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

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

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#both #called #conservative #feet #firmly

My family had liberal positions. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#had #liberal #positions

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education. ↗

— Julie Bowen

#arts education #college #education #four #had

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

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago. ↗

— John Bright

#am #great #i #i am #liberal

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

— Lenny Bruce

#liberals #people #them #understand #who

My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#concepts #conformity #conservative #consider #correctness