Broadminded Quotes & Sayings

My views on wealth redistribution were shaped largely by knowledge elites who earned their living by words and ideas
professors, writers, and movement leaders. Like most of the broadminded clergy I knew, I reasoned out of modern naturalistic premises, employing biblical narratives narrowly and selectively as I found them useful politically. The saving Grace of God on the cross was not in my mix of life changing ideas. — Thomas C. Oden

I hope that I am as broadminded as others, and you have always seen a decanter of wine on the table. — John P. Marquand

My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre. — Peter Gallagher

America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance - it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded. — Fulton J. Sheen

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything. — Fulton J. Sheen

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side — Thomas Sowell

Then he said, 'Well, Matty, we don't seem to go together at all, do we. I'm simply not broadminded enough for your Jews and your niggers. — Doris Lessing

I am not a scoundrel, but I'm broadminded. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep. — Vance Havner

Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual. — Indra Devi

Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded! — Winston Churchill

One of the main problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broadminded and well-adjusted family can't cope with. — Douglas Adams

My parents, despite their serious attitude toward life in general, and that of their children in particular, were very broadminded people. There was no such thing as a bad profession for them. As I was their daughter, they knew that, whatever profession I chose, I would do it well. That was enough for them. There was always trust among the Kellys. — Grace Kelly

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. — Robert Frost

Today, most of the good people are afraid to be good. They strive to be broadminded and tolerant — Edith Star Miller

Today's liberal intellectuals, who pride themselves on scientific method and being "broadminded", are the most narrow-minded, self-righteous and hate-filled bigots in the history of humanity. No primitive tribe worshipping with its witch-doctor was ever more vicious in its hatred and suppression of heretics than today's Marxist intellectuals, anti-racists and liberals. — George Lincoln Rockwell