#liberalism

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

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#conservatives #democrats #extremism #liberalism #liberals

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#lunacy #liberalism

I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result. ↗

— Edward W. Said

#comics #liberation #subversion #liberalism

It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that has already been won. ↗

— Duop Chak Wuol

#morality #republic #war #liberalism

Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip! ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#liberalism

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else. ↗

— Frédéric Bastiat

#france #government #history #liberal #libertarian

Every man and every woman is a star. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#liberalism

I like that people can just look at you and know that you are taken, that you are mine.” He closed his eyes and laughed. “And yes, I know that sentiment is at the top of the Women’s Liberation Movement’s list of things not to say to a modern woman ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#liberalism

And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#meaninglessness #the-way-of-liberation #liberalism