Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?

God isn't dead - he's just missing in action.

The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.

And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.

The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.

Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

Beneath the greatest love lies a hurricane of hate.

America is two Mack trucks colliding on a superhighway because all the drivers are on amphetamines.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.

Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being.

Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts.

Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.

Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for.

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.

The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant.

But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.

Liberalism isn't change. It has to be imposed.