Top 461 Liberalism Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

All cultures are capable of democracy and liberalism. Everybody wants to be free.

Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.

Liberalism is part of a religious disorder that demands a belief that life is controllable.

Religion is an affront to liberalism because it dares suggest it's not all about you.

In India, it is not a contradiction for religion and liberalism to co-exist.

We shall experience the final defeat of liberalism not when immigration but when emigration is forbidden

When the forces of liberalism and capitalism converge, change happens.

It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

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

The victory of liberalism enables them to sue their victors.

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.

We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.

Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.

Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.

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

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.

Extreme liberalism is not a political philosophy. It is a mental disorder.

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

Modern American liberalism is nothing but the socialism too stupid to recognize itself in the mirror.

The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant.

Socialism, leftism, liberalism not only doesn't respect the unique abilities of free people; it attempts to quash them and to eliminate them. Because it's unfair not only to have more than somebody else, it's unfair to be better than anybody else at whatever you do. That's not fair. So we define everything down to the lowest common denominator. We take the people at the top, bring 'em down to people at the bottom and say that's equality. We punish achievement if liberalism and leftism rules the day. But capitalism is where the respect for unique abilities and freedom resides.

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

Liberalism is never gonna be that tiny or small.

True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism.

Liberalism must be intolerant of every sort of intolerance.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

Don't you just hate it when the war on terrorism interferes with political correctness and liberalism's equality fetish?

Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.

Conserving the individual is the basis of conservatism. It is classical, de Tocqueville liberalism.

Liberalism is a cancer; it's a forest fire; it destroys every single thing it touches.

I believe the default position in life is liberalism. You have to work at being a Conservative.

The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

Liberalism is a disease cured only by a lobotomy or 90 days in a third world country.

Liberalism has become a moral vaccine that immunizes people against stigmatization.

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

From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was.

You hear that liberalism lacks an idea of the common good, but I think that's a mistake.

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.

Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?

Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.

The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant

Liberalism has never done as well as it thinks at resolving its own crises.

Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity.

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.

Liberalism is a series of grievances in addition to everything else that it is.

One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.

We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small 'l' liberalism.

For the average American, the message is clear. Liberalism is no longer the answer. It is the problem.

I think that one of the things that has happened is that psychiatry has become the religion of liberalism.

There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."

The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism

Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.

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

Liberals don't believe that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. If they promoted that, there'd be no need for liberalism.