Liberalism Quotes

229 Liberalism quotes by 158 unique authors

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it. — Alexander Herzen
Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community. — James Luther Adams
Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day; others five or six… — Michel Houellebecq
The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people. — Alan Keyes
Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink. — P.J. O'Rourke
You cannot extend the mastery of government over the daily life of a people without somewhere making it master of people's souls and thoughts.... Every… — Herbert Hoover
Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
When one becomes a liberal, he or she pretends to advocate tolerance, equality and peace, but hilariously, they’re doing so for purely selfish reasons. It’s… — Greg Gutfeld
The essence of liberalism is negotiation, a cautious half measure, in the hope that the definitive dispute, the decisive bloody battle, can be transformed into… — Carl Schmitt
One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism. — Richard John Neuhaus
Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. — James Burnham
Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic… — James Burnham
Religion is an affront to liberalism because it dares suggest it's not all about you — Giles Fraser
It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish… — Charles Kuralt
The civil liberty of every mode of worship, and full power given to all of openly and publicly manifesting their opinions and their ideas conduce… — Pope Pius IX
At the heart of liberalism really is a hatred for God and a belief that government should replace God. — Todd Akin
The idea of liberalism has to be recreated. In the course of time it has lost so much of its clarity and attraction that it… — Friedrich Naumann
The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and more interesting… — E. Haldeman-Julius
Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture, ... When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no… — Rick Santorum
The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone; don't harass me; I'm intolerant… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a pacifist.… — Mancur Olson
[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism. — Newt Gingrich
... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome - not opportunity,… — Noam Chomsky
In a world torn by every kind of fundamentalism - religious, ethnic, nationalist and tribal - we must grant first place to economic fundamentalism, with… — Carlos Fuentes
Liberalism demands that people without guns be able to tell people with guns what to do. — Stephen Holmes

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