Illiberal Quotes
7 quotes by 7 authors
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It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except…
— Carl Clinton Van Doren
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In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.
— Herman Melville
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One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but…
— Terry Eagleton
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A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in…
— Jane Austen
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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. Christians…
— Richard Dawkins
Who Wrote These Illiberal Quotes
7 authors contributed a total of 7 Illiberal Quotes as follows: