Liberal Lunatic Quotes & Sayings

Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp. — Oswald Chambers

The changes during adolescence are not something to just get through; they are qualities we actually need to hold on to in order to live a full and meaningful life in adulthood. — Daniel J. Siegel

Contrary to what we, the people, have been told, we are the power; we have supreme authority because we are the masses and true power always resides with the masses, never with the global elite who, by their very nature, have always been a vulnerable minority and will always continue to be ... As long as the masses realize that, of course. — James Morcan

You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left. — Dr. Seuss

Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends. — George Santayana

I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing something that mattered: to keep up standards, to take books seriously. — Claire Tomalin

Consciousness is the grave of things, the place where they cease to exist, beyond which they end. And when they have ended, it seems that they no longer have any essential existence except in the visions in me. — Oskar Kokoschka

Crazy people never seem to get better, so everyone needs to know what could be a potential problem down the line. — Raine Miller

Old Mr. Towers believed exactly what he preached and somehow it made a tremendous difference. — L.M. Montgomery

I skipped the thirty-one years between 1938 and 1965 and jumped to the section entitled "Junitaki Today." Of course, the book's "today" being 1970, it was hardly today's "today." Still, writing the history of one town obviously imposed the necessity of bringing it up to a "today." And even if such a today soon ceases to be today, no one can deny that it is in fact a today. For if a today ceased to be today, history could not exist as history. — Haruki Murakami

A liberal is a noble and indispensable lunatic who tries to make a cosmos of his own head. — G.K. Chesterton

I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show. — Emily Mortimer

in this job you really need to know only four things: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - and most of the time you can get by without division!" I — Emanuel Derman

When you have a liberal class that no longer functions, when those people who traditionally defend and care about a civil society no longer do so, then you cede power to very frightening, deformed figures, all of which we are watching leap up around the fringes of our political establishment - this lunatic fringe, which has largely taken over the Republican Party. — Chris Hedges

A hexagonal piece of cheese is a lot better than a square piece of cheese. — Hod Lipson