Olive oil Quote by Thomas Frank

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

“When you have rejected all the accepted social science methods for understanding the way things work, when you can’t talk straight about social class,…

— Thomas Frank

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

— Christopher Lasch

“This leads to a thoroughly fascinating finding—social conservatives tend toward lower thresholds for disgust than liberals.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in…

— Criss Jami

Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension. It…

— Mao Zedong

“Under liberalism, went a famous quip, everyone is free to starve. Even worse, by encouraging people to view themselves as isolated individuals, liberalism separates…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us we cannot…

— John Stossel

The word liberal has been employed as the political equivalent of an untreatable but potentially containable social disease -- the kind that could be…

— Eric Alterman

“I am a conservative in large part because I believe that politics should intrude on life as little as possible. Conservatives surely believe that…

— Jonah Goldberg

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

“[Liberalism] is an ethos that aims simultaneously at political and social collectivism on the one hand, and moral anarchy on the other”

— Irving Kristol