Liberalism Quotes

“empathy is more powerful than sympathy”

— Angie Thomas

Unjust rule does not last forever.

— Seneca the Younger

“They need a deen that's not your uncle's deen.”

— Michael Muhammad Knight

A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Power naturally and necessarily follows property.

— Daniel Webster

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

— Karl Marx

No one is responsible under liberalism.

— David Horowitz

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

— Francis Parker Yockey

When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.

— William Morris

“Realism arises from the maturity of the minds, while Idealism arises from their conformity.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Liberalism doesn't speak to ideals. Radicalism does.

— Jeff Sharlet

Liberalism has become a moral vaccine that immunizes people against stigmatization.

— Shelby Steele

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

— Aristotle

Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!

— Ferdinand Lassalle

Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.

— Norman Mailer

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

— Lucan

“Anarchism has in common with Liberalism the idea that the happiness and prosperity of the individual must be the standard of all…

— Rudolf Rocker

“Nowadays, you can do anything that you want—anal, oral, fisting—but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection.”

— Slavoj Žižek

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

The U.S.A. economic policy and practice have been largely influenced by this thought that people shall own property in their own right…

— Ndabaningi Sithole

Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good…

— Aristotle

“And so liberalism had become a habit of Stepan Arkadyevitch's, and he liked his newspaper, as he did his cigar after dinner,…

— Leo Tolstoy

There is no safety where there is no strength; no strength without Union; no Union without justice; no justice where faith and…

— William Lloyd Garrison

Liberalism is a scourge. It destroys the human spirit. It destroys prosperity. It assigns sameness to everybody. And wherever I find it,…

— Rush Limbaugh

Government has the responsibility to provide the climate in which Americans, all Americans, have an opportunity for good jobs; and not only…

— Richard M. Nixon

For they have always unanimously maintained that nature, rather the Creator Himself, has given man the right of private ownership not only…

— Pope Pius XI

The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied…

— E. Haldeman-Julius

The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in…

— Samuel Adams

... liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in…

— Susan Sontag

“The "democratic spirit"... [or the campaign to make everyone the same] leads to a nation without great men, a nation mainly of…

— C.S. Lewis

In the USA, where so many people compete for one and the same thing, where job opportunities, residential facilities, and food resources…

— Ndabaningi Sithole

In a world torn by every kind of fundamentalism - religious, ethnic, nationalist and tribal - we must grant first place to…

— Carlos Fuentes

When the mass of families in a State are without property, then those who were once citizens become virtually slaves. The more…

— Hilaire Belloc

Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ...…

— Anonymous

Justice demands that the good and hard-working be rewarded and the evil and the lazy be punished (if only by the withholding…

— Evan Sayet

“The basic move of liberalism is to replace the social centre (normal people) with the margin (foreigners, minorities, deviants) forever. The stack…

— Mike Maxwell

For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like…

— Aristotle

“After the defeat of the German Revolution in 1848 German Nationalism lost much of its original liberalism. Worship of State and Race…

— Hugh Seton-Watson

Men will see in their king or in their rulers men like themselves perhaps unworthy or open to criticism, but they will…

— Pope Pius XI

“Whereas liberalism merged with the milder versions of nationalism to protect the unique experiences of each human community, evolutionary humanists such as…

— Yuval Noah Harari