Abandonment Quote by Friedrich August von Hayek

So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted,…

— Niall Ferguson

Liberalism teaches those who have fallen behind in the economic scramble to blame others for their failure. This attitude stimulates juices of resentment and…

— David Horowitz

There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its…

— Dennis Prager

“When, thirty-five years ago, I tried to give a summary of the ideas and principles of that social philosophy that was once known under…

— Ludwig von Mises

The idea of liberalism has to be recreated. In the course of time it has lost so much of its clarity and attraction that…

— Friedrich Naumann

“In other words, in 1919 relatively few people could become disenchanted with liberal modernity because only a tiny minority had enjoyed the opportunity to…

— Pankaj Mishra

So much of contemporary liberalism seems to be never having grown up.

— Jay Nordlinger

The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.

— Charles Krauthammer

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude…

— David Mamet

“My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

— Oliver Stone

Liberalism is a force truly of the spirit proceeding from the deep realization that economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to…

— Herbert Hoover