

In America there’s no such thing as Democrats and Republicans anymore. Let me first explain what I mean by this White liberal. Tom Wolfe But our democracy might work a bit better if we recognized that all of us possess values that are worthy of respect: if liberals at least acknowledged that the recreational hunter feels the same way about his gun as they feel about their library books, and if conservatives recognized that most women feel as protective of their right to reproductive freedom as evangelicals do of their right to worship.“The White liberal is the worst enemy to America and the worst enemy to the Black man. Government Radical Chic invariably favors radicals who seem primitive, exotic, and romantic, such as the grape workers, who are not merely radical and "of the soil" but also Latin the Panthers, with their leather pieces, Afros, shades, and shoot-outs and the Red Indians, who, of course, had always seemed primitive, exotic, and romantic. Mark Levin Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

The primary principle around which the Statist organizes can be summed up in a single word-equality. Ĭonservatives As the word "liberal" is, in its classical meaning, the opposite of authoritarian, it is more accurate, therefore, to characterize the Modern Liberal as a Statist. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. Shirley Chisholm A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they suddenly excuse themselves. Thomas Sowell The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the Civil Rights conflict. Ĭonservatives Democrats and Republicans Anyone who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize those who disagree with them - instead of answering their arguments. Am I imagining that trend? Could be confirmation bias. Ĭonservatives I'm noticing a trend in which conservatives judge people by their actions whereas liberals judge people by their presumed secret thoughts. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. Winston Churchill Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
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Leonard Bernstein There is something common to modern "liberal" and Salafi educations: they teach students answers rather than how to ask questions. Malcolm Bradbury A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. Įquality You know what they say: if God had been a Liberal, we wouldn't have had the ten commandments. Ĭonservatives We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. Malcolm Bradbury Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Tom Wolfe The Bonfire of the Vanities If God had been a Liberal there wouldn't have been Ten Commandments, there would have been Ten Suggestions. Thomas Sowell He was learning for himself the truth of the saying, "A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.". Stokely Carmichael No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers. Lenny Bruce The Essential Lenny Bruce What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position. Jesse Helms The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them. Robert Frost Stop the liberals from spending taxpayers' money on perverted, deviant art. Wilson A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. Most popular liberal quotes There are no more liberals They've all been mugged.
