Liberalism Quotes

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Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

Poor people have been voting for big government liberalism for 50 years... and they are still poor.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement, especially walking behind it.

There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improvable superlative.

I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.

If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones.

..Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.

They need a deen that's not your uncle's deen.

Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

Feminists are incapable of crafting a coherent argument using their words. It almost always involves menstrual blood or some sort of reference to ladyparts.

It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, "the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals.

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

The author and intellectual Cornel West has said that 'justice is what love looks like in public.' I often think that neoliberalism is what lovelessness looks like as policy.

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.

One writer may speak of something more lasting than Horace Greeley when he writes of that editor that his secular philanthropy drifted into autocratic ambition.

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

empathy is more powerful than sympathy

Everything's urgent to a Democrat.

[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

I can’t even believe the world we live in. My parents raised me to work hard, not to ever expect any handouts in life – and to treat people with respect.

There is room for words on subjects other than last words.

Both David Koresh and Timothy McVeigh fell in the fight for freedom, the right of the Americans to be left alone.

[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.

In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order.

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the imprisonment of humanity within the cold walls of a rationalist dogmatism.

It is not the job of the media to try to skew events but to report on events honestly. Anything else is journalistic malpractice.

Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.

Think about the precedents you are setting. It's the Left that runs the world on reckless emotionalism. Don't join.

To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano.

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

The period of time between eligibility to vote and the start of adulthood is a window of opportunity that the liberals are willing to exploit to their advantage.

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

Equality has no place for genius.

Realism arises from the maturity of the minds, while Idealism arises from their conformity.

Our athiests are pious people.

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

The goal of radicalism is to improve the human condition, not to prove one's own moral superiority.

You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance.

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one.

The more I learn, the less I know.