Conformist Quote by Noam Chomsky

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

— George Orwell

... liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in positions of…

— Susan Sontag

“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

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a…

— Leonard Bernstein

Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ... It is…

— Leo Strauss

In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other…

— Camille Paglia

A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or…

— Walter Cronkite

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea

— Francis Parker Yockey

Liberalism is essentially the belief that there can be a reconciliation of all difficulties and differences, and since there can't, it is a misleading…

— Maurice Cowling

“Liberal” in the nineteenth-century United States and Europe designated people who in many, but not all, respects would be called conservatives in the twenty-first…

— Richard White

Cultural arenas and institutions that were always liberal are being prodded or dragged further to the left.

— Ross Douthat

I use throughout the term 'liberal' in the original, nineteenth-century sense in which it is still current in Britain. In current American usage it…

— Friedrich August von Hayek