What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of…

If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K.…

— Richard Dawkins

Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.

— Herman Melville

“Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

— Anonymous

“I’m not going to support any legislation that I would regard as socially illiberal, or taking this country backwards.”

— Ed Vaizey

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it…

— Muhammad Yunus

A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Where there is love, there is no imposition.

— Albert Einstein

These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

— Samuel Richardson

The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

I think that both pornography and the imposition (common in some areas of the world) of a dress code on women are problematic.

— Alison Assiter

The sanctions may be imposed only by the decision of the UN Security Council. A unilateral imposition of sanctions is a violation of international…

— Vladimir Putin

Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

— Amartya Sen

The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the…

— Kate Millett