| "What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides." »Felix G. Rohatyn |
| "The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest." »Barbara M. White |
| "Whenever I hear people talking about 'liberal ideas,' I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions." »Johann von Goethe |
| "A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching." »A Bartlett Giamatti |
| "The arts are the servant wisdom its master." »Seneca |
| "I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money." »Will Rogers |
| "A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel." »Robert Frost |
| "A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment." »Willis Player |
| "Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs." »Thomas Wolfe |
| "There are three arts which are concerned with all things one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them." »Plato |
| "All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life." »M. C. Richards |
| "To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings." »Vicki Baum |
| "It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea." »Robert Anton Wilson |
| "No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress." »Hendrik Willem Van Loon |
| "Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts." »Thomas Carlyle |
| "To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country." »George Washington |
| "By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows." »Ovid |
| "America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover." »Al Franken |
| "A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future." »Leonard Bernstein |
| "Charlie You know, Scotland has its own martial arts. Yeah, it's called F-You. It's mostly just head butting and then kicking people when they're on the ground." »So I Married an Axe Murderer |
| "More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic." »Uta Hagan |
| "In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat." »Auguste Renoir |
| "He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man. (describing Saddam Hussein of Iraq, 1991)" »Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf |
| "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." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative." »Kurt Vonnegut |
| "The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all." »Alan Simpson |
| "Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself." »Henry Havelock Ellis |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
