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What do you think are some really good quotes?

What do you think are some really good quotes?

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Original post by glittersky09
What do you think are some really good quotes?

"Liberalism within ourselves is always the enemy." - Jonathan Bowden
Original post by Mike Marra
"Liberalism within ourselves is always the enemy." - Jonathan Bowden

Depends on what connotation of liberalism you're talking about.
Original post by SlaveofAll
Depends on what connotation of liberalism you're talking about.

The type which tells you to keep up being boring and conformist. And to keep weak physically.
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Original post by Mike Marra
The type which tells you keep up being boring and conformist.

That's conservatism, Mike Marra, the very thing that person you quoted was in favour of.
Original post by Kovalensky
That's conservatism, Mike Marra, the very thing that person you quoted was in favour of.

To argue that conservatism is the boring order nowadays is purely ignorant. Not to go too alt-lite on you but there's some truth in conservatism being the new counter-culture.
Original post by Mike Marra
The type which tells you to keep up being boring and conformist. And to keep weak physically.

It's more like a deviant offshoot of liberalism than the genuine article that John Locke and co believe.
Original post by Mike Marra
To argue that conservatism is the boring order nowadays is purely ignorant. Not to go too alt-lite on you but there's some truth in conservatism being the new counter-culture.

No one today is purely conservative or liberal.
Original post by SlaveofAll
No one today is purely conservative or liberal.

If you're going political, I'm touching more on the soul of man, It's up to you if you keep that vulnerable or strong like iron.
Original post by Mike Marra
If you're going political, I'm touching more on the soul of man, It's up to you if you keep that vulnerable or strong like iron.

I'm just stating what's going on. What I mean that conservative and liberal labels no longer fit modern configurations as each ideology today mixes propositions from both conservatism and liberalism.
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Original post by glittersky09
What do you think are some really good quotes?

"If you don't sacrifice for what you want, what you want will eventually be the sacrifice."
I have no idea who this is from but I found it on a YouTube comment.
'Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken' - Oscar Wilde
Original post by glittersky09
What do you think are some really good quotes?

"The one standing in infinite glory is you; the one fallen from grace is also you. What matters is ‘you’ and not the state of you."
Original post by Mike Marra
"Liberalism within ourselves is always the enemy." - Jonathan Bowden


"Liberalism is moral syphilis, and I'm stepping over it." - Jonathan Bowden
“Imagination is the only weapon in the war with reality.” – Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland

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