We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning…

It is perfectly acceptable in a free and liberal society to criticize, debate, mock, and reject any ideology.

— Gad Saad

“liberal society, in its heart, wants not only domination of the military, but acquiesence of the military toward the liberal view of life.”

— T. R. Fehrenbach

One has to strive for a very open liberal society.

— Zaha Hadid

Politicians want people to be nice neighbours, but the tools at their disposal are just the tools of modern liberal society, which are nothing.

— Alain de Botton

Governments cannot require individuals, they cannot require the public as a body, and they cannot require corporations to make investigation and law enforcement easy…

— Edward Snowden

Well everyone's careers is a series of steps, but being the President of the Young Liberals or the President of a Liberal society at…

— George Brandis

The attitude of the liberal towards society is like that of the gardener who tends a plant and, in order to create the conditions…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to…

— Robert Winston

A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must…

— Jonathan Rauch

A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only…

— Michael Ignatieff

I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes.…

— Rocco Buttiglione

To my mind, the education of children - girl children, specifically - is what really creates an enlightened society. It creates a liberal society.

— Anand Mahindra

“For Hegel , by contrast, liberal society is a reciprocal and equal agreement among citizens to mutually recognize each other”

— Francis Fukuyama

When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp.…

— Shirin Ebadi

“Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' legitimated a programme of political and social…

— Michael Salter