Quotes of: Liberal-democrats Keyword

The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat human beings.

Animal Liberation

Having someone this male next to her made her soul feel exhilarated and convey brazenly suggestive, female, liberal ideas to her inner id.

Alien Promise

Ours was the age of enlightenment, he said, when the battle cry was, ‘We must know, we shall know!’, and reason would depose superstition and we be liberated by it.

The Spiral House

Each moment has an unrealized dimension of beauty that only your perspective can liberate.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

Middlemarch

The absurd does not liberate; it binds. It does not authorize all actions. "Everything is permitted" does not mean that nothing is forbidden.

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.

The Names

[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

Liberalism and Its Critics

Perhaps the most liberating moment in my life was when I realized that my self-loathing was not a product of my inadequacy but, rather, a product of my thoughts.

The Love Mindset

I believe that theology is facing the abyss. I must face the abyss, the abyss of existence, the abyss of mystery. (Rubem Alves, p. 189)

Struggle Is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation

...the oppressor is truly repressed. Their poverty is existential, often surrounded by an abundance of material goods. (Leonardo Boff, p. 179)

Struggle Is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation

I think both Protestants and Catholics have killed the woman for the sake of the mother. (Rubem Alves, p. 201)

Struggle Is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation

You're sexist. I'm so sick of liberal lefty men practicing sexual discrimination under the guide of protecting women against sexual discrimination.

Sharp Objects

Morgan was looking at the food in front of her suspiciously, as if it intended to merely reside for a bit inside her, then liberate itself at a most inconvenient time.

Princess of the Sword

This was the bonus to liberal Christianity: I could use my reason and believe at the same time.

Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

Wild Ducks Flying Backward

The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.

Why Progressive Institutions Are Unsustainable

If you are looking for verses with which to oppress women, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with which to liberate and honor women, you will find them.

A Year of Biblical Womanhood

I think a lot of people will be liberated from a lot of oppressive manufacturing jobs, or a lot of service jobs, because they'll be done by computers. There'll be the world's best education available online and free.

Tyler Cowen

In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.

The Freedom Manifesto

Men-what arrogance! That was the worst of them. Forget the sexual hold they had on you. They would never liberate women at all.

Hunter's Moon