Quote by Mark Lilla

“The Republicans have successfully persuaded much of the public that they are the party of Joe Sixpack and Democrats are the party of Jessica…

— Mark Lilla

[Identity liberalism] is about recognition and self-definition. It's narcissistic. It's isolating. It looks within. And it also makes two contradictory claims on people.

— Steve Inskeep

Identity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive.

— Steve Inskeep

“Identity politics is universally attractive because it enables failures and weaknesses to be spun as the products of oppression and historical injustice. Personal responsibility…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

“Liberalism: for every complicated problem there exists both an intellectual and a moral solution and they coincide.”

— Theodore White

“The paradox of identity liberalism is that it paralyzes the capacity to think and act in a way that would actually accomplish the things…

— Mark Lilla

“A liberal is a noble and indispensable lunatic who tries to make a cosmos of his own head.”

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“Looked at from the point of view of citizens, liberalism is a practice of politics for people who will not be bossed about or…

— Edmund Fawcett

“By destroying traditional social habits of the people, by dissolving their natural collective consciousness into individual constituents, by licensing the opinions of the most…

— T.S. Eliot

“Liberalism within ourselves is always the enemy.”

— Jonathan Bowden

It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been willing to…

— Mary Ann Glendon

“We all take on identities that are not true to ourselves. Sometimes we choose to become what the world expects to see of us,…

— Kieran Shields