Doctrine Quote by Slavoj Žižek

Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a doctrine gradually…

— Ralph Raico

“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

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

— Thomas Sowell

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

Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society.

— Dave Rubin

The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob…

— T. S. Eliot

Liberalism has never been about establishing a universal standard. Liberalism is simply intellectual cover for those wanting to gain political power and increase the…

— Andrew Breitbart

“I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human heart…

— John F. Kennedy

The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify…

— Anonymous

Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like…

— Joseph Sobran

As a reformer the liberal is dissatisfied with things as they are because they violate his exceptionally tender conscience.... Liberalism does not advocate change…

— Ralph Barton Perry