Liberalism Quotes

229 Liberalism quotes by 158 unique authors

There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there… — Roland Barthes
The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane… — Barbara Ehrenreich
It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism. — Gunnar Myrdal
In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation… — Criss Jami
I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded. — Criss Jami
Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering… — Criss Jami
It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in… — Eva Hoffman
Liberalism is wrong because it doesn't work. If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist. — George Will
It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been willing to admit,… — Mary Ann Glendon
If you have a personality predisposed to liberalism, you might gravitate more to the artsy crowd or the anti-establishment crowd. And then those peers will… — Jonathan Haidt
There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R.,… — William Kristol
Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of progress,… — Frantz Fanon
Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work of a few… — Fulton J. Sheen
I think the most basic difference between Liberalism and Conservatism today, at its core, is that Conservatives just seem to want a better world for… — Derek R. Audette
I do not like to call myself a Liberal, because there is so much that is wrong with liberalism. I also do not like to… — Derek R. Audette
One of the biggest differences between liberalism and conservativism these days, is that conservativism isn't what conservativism should be, and liberalism is what liberalism ought… — Derek R. Audette
If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion. — Joseph Sobran
Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it. — Hunter S. Thompson
The True conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise from it. The… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Every...subsection of liberalism is always busy attacking another subsection of liberalism, because god forbid they should all band together and actually fight for the cause. — Joss Whedon
Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to… — Pierre Trudeau
The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism. — Charles Krauthammer
Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded. — Pope Francis
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. — Robert Frost
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. — John Kenneth Galbraith

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