Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.
It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.
Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.
By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.
Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.
The liberals in my neighbourhood wouldn't give away Brentwood to the Palestinians, but they want to give away Tel Aviv.
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.
You can play golf with liberals, be neighbors with them, go out to dinner. I just don't want them in power.
Only if you empower the liberals, if you empower the moderate socialists, if you empower all factions of society, only then will extremists be marginalised.
'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.
Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
When people like your music because it has vulnerable honesty, and you're able to comfortably admit to flaws and imperfections, then that's the most liberating thing about being an artist.
I'm just waiting for the moment where it's accepted that women are just as sexual as men without women having to be overtly sexy just to prove how 'liberated' they are.
Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.
