Thomas Sowell Quotes

Like Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, I try to balance reality with how we'd like the world to be.

Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal would be about socializing.

I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.

As a matter of fact, you know, Jesus probably would be, except for one or two issues, a liberal Democrat if he were around today.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

Throughout my many years of service to the people of North Carolina, I have always tried to treat people from all viewpoints with respect.

Justice is to be found only in imagination.

A liberal is a person whose interests aren’t at stake at the moment

[Referring to Margaret Thatcher:] She is democratic enough to talk down to anyone.

I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.

We liberals do sometimes forsake our vows of compassion for all mankind.

As progressives, we care about the well-being of others. We are soft-hearted and have aloha, respect, compassion for others, and we don't like to see anyone suffering.

Liberals consider people to be nuisances.

I have two little boys, and I want them to feel like this is the nation that I know. That this is the nation that isn't petty.

I believe in people, and you don't need to be a feminist for that.

You have to look beyond your known limited experience. Politics should be based on compassion.

I love my right-wing friends, my practical friends, my bleeding heart friends - without all of these viewpoints, life would be pretty boring.

I wouldn't characterise myself as a bleeding heart liberal, whatever that is.

If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.

The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.