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"What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides." »Felix G. Rohatyn
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"The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!" »Sonjay Anand
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"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
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"The mother of the useful arts is necessity, that of the fine arts is luxury; for father the former have intellect, the latter, genius, which itself is a kind of luxury." »Schopenhauer
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"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 Wolfgang von Goethe
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"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
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"A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word "but" which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative -- before they tell you.
Thus: "I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but ... " (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut)." »Frank Mankiewicz
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"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
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"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." »Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", pp. 323- 324
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"The arts are the servant; wisdom its master." »Seneca
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"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." »Winston Churchill
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"The arts are the servant wisdom its master." »Seneca
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"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel." »Robert Frost
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"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs." »Thomas Wolfe
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"All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life." »M. C. Richards
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"I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money." »Will Rogers
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"There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them." »Plato, The Republic
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"There are three arts which are concerned with all things one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them." »Plato
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"To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned." »Dick Gregory
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"A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight begins." »Heywood Broun
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"The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life." »Oscar Wilde
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"A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment." »Willis Player
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"We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us." »Lionel Trilling
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"If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain." »Winston Churchhill
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"The modern definition of "racist" is "someone who is winning an argument with a liberal" »Peter Brimelow, National Review (2/1/93)
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"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
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"To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion." »Cicero
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"We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece." »Percy Bysshe Shelley
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