Liberality Quotes - Page 3

• Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

  Indra Devi

  Spiritual, Men, Thinking

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• I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.

  Abigail Adams

  Sex, Accomplishment, Brilliant

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.127

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• A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

  Robert Frost

  Men, Political, Tolerance

  "The Geography of the Imagination". Book by Guy Davenport, 1981.

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• A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness.

  Edward Gibbon

  Character, Law, Justice

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon: Historical Works, Autobiographical Writings and Private Letters, Including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.3359, e-artnow

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• The sovereign must have full knowledge of the activities of the five sorts of agents. This knowledge must come from the double agents, and therefore it is mandatory that they be treated with the utmost liberality.

  Sun Tzu

  Agents, Sovereign, Treated

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• How can you have in our country that is based upon liberality and liberation, be so anti-liberal. That's toxic waste to our consciousness. It's hard to be an American conservative because that's a contradiction in terms. Now if you take away freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of protest, and lock people out based upon their race, their language and their religion, that's conservative and fascist. America is a liberal idea.

  Jesse Jackson

  Country, Race, Ideas

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• An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

  Nick Cave

  Art, Inspiration, Tolerance

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• It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

  Tucker Carlson

  Tolerance, Important, Open Minded

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• In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Envy, Reign, Virtue

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1749). “The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Original Spanish of Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra. By Charles Jarvis Esq; ...”, p.441

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• Toleration, holding that every other man has the same right to his opinion and faith that we have to ours; and liberality, holding that as no human being can with certainty say, in the clash and conflict of hostile faiths and creeds, what is truth, or that he is surely in possession of it, so everyone should feel that it is quite possible that another equally honest and sincere with himself, and yet holding the contrary opinion, may himself be in possession of the truth.

  Albert Pike

  Men, May, Opinion

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• Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

  Tom Hanks

  Optimistic, Optimism, Tolerance

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• One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.

  Wallace Stevens

  Mean, Doe, Culture

  "Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens" edited by Holly Stevens, (Ch. 3), 1977.

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• In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a Social Security pension.

  Dana Gioia

  America, Poet, Social

  "James Tate and American Surrealism". Denver Quarterly, Fall 1998.

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• I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth; that freedom of enquiry will produce liberality of conduct; that mankind will reverse the absurd position that the many were, made for the few; and that they will not continue slaves in one part of the globe, when they can become freemen in another.

  George Washington

  Spring, War, Dark

  George Washington, Dorothy Twohig, William Wright Abbot (1987). “The Papers of George Washington: April-June 1789”

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• But you are not under a system similar to that by which the Jews were obliged to pay tithes to the priests. If there were any such rule laid down in the Gospel, it would destroy the beauty of spontaneous giving and take away all the bloom from the fruit of your liberality! There is no law to tell me what I should give my father on his birthday. There is no rule laid down in any law book to decide what present a husband should give to his wife, nor what token of affection we should bestow upon others whom we love. No, the gift must be a free one, or it has lost all its sweetness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Husband, Father, Book

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• Prayer is not a hard requirement - it is the natural duty of a creature to its creator, the simplest homage that human need can pay to divine liberality.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Pay, Requirements

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Robert Hall (1993). “The Power of Prayer in a Believer's Life”, p.151, YWAM Publishing

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• Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Real, Knowledge, Progress

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 366), 1895.

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• The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Emotional, Feelings, Realms

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• In all works of liberality something more is to be considered besides the occasion of the givers; and that is the occasion of the receivers.

  Thomas Sprat

  Charity, Giver, Occasions

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• The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Humanity, Truth Is

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• Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?.

  Robert Browning

  Blue, Hatred, Heaven

  Robert Browning (1899). “Poetical Works”

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