#lib

I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.' ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#amiable #boat #century #english #every

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. ↗

— Fritz Todt

#accused #any #attempted #buildings #cultural

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded. ↗

— David E. Price

#also #arrogance #basic #country #disagree

If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged. ↗

— Richard Price

#acknowledged #book #center #character #integrate

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized. ↗

— Romano Prodi

#equilibrium #information #minimized #must #politics

I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#female #gay #human #i #just

I do live a weirdly divided life, because I'm not a Hollywood superstar, I don't live on Malibu Beach, I don't do massive 'OK!' spreads, I don't go to premieres and parties that much. ↗

— James Purefoy

#because #divided #go #hollywood #i

Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#against #before #community #creating #deliberately

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#becomes #copy #deep #england #ever

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#deliberately #interpreted #our #strengthening #times