Illiberal Quotes

#1. Her father, captivated by youth and beauty, and that appearance of good humour which youth and beauty generally give, had married a woman whose weak understanding and illiberal mind had very early in their marriage put an end to all real affection for her.

Jane Austen

#2. If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too.

Richard Dawkins

#3. The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

#4. It is an ancient belief, going back to classical antiquity, that specialization of any kind is illiberal in a freeman. A man willing to bury himself in the details of some small endeavor has been considered lost to these larger considerations which must occupy the mind of the ruler.

Richard M. Weaver

#5. Whereas I had not meant anything so illiberal as a national reflexion, of course; only that I hated Papists.

Patrick O'Brian

#6. One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.

Terry Eagleton

#7. There's something illiberal about the way infants are thrust into the hands of people who have no idea what they're doing, who can only experiment.

Adam Haslett

#8. In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

Lord Chesterfield

#9. Plato possessed the art to dress up illiberal suggestions in such a way that they deceived future ages, which admired the Republic without ever becoming aware of what was involved in its proposals.

Bertrand Russell

#10. The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence.

Dorothea Brande

#11. But thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.

Herman Melville

#12. National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

Jane Porter

#13. What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views.

Richard Dawkins

#14. Modern 'liberalism' is strikingly illiberal; the high priests of 'tolerance' are increasingly intolerant of even the mildest dissent; and those who profess to 'celebrate diversity' coerce ever more ruthlessly a narrow homogeneity.

Mark Steyn

#15. Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.

Louis Menand

#16. I will not raise objections against any one's conduct on so illiberal a foundation, as a difference in judgment from myself, or a deviation from what I may think right and consistent.

Jane Austen

#17. A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.

Jane Austen

#18. The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.

Hugh Blair

#19. Anything you say may be used against you.

Betty Smith

#20. Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.

Zhou Weihui

#21. Confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.

Abraham Lincoln

#22. To disobey God's law is to forfeit your relationship with him

Sunday Adelaja

#23. Does anybody realize what life is
while they're living it- every, every minute?

Thornton Wilder

#24. Do not fear, only believe.

Anonymous

#25. Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

Maya Angelou

#26. Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.

David Guterson

#27. Ever to confess you're bored
means you have no
Inner Resources.

John Berryman

#28. Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

Paul Bettany

#29. Yep, I have to admit that isosceles triangles make me feel hormonal.

Sherman Alexie

#30. The people of this country desperately need to engage in an open and honest debate about mental health.

David Satcher

#31. In the name of Justice!!! Ultra-secret forbidden Ogi technique: Star of Ogi!!!

Keiichi Arawi

#32. Women didn't come into men's rooms and sink into men's Humes. Women brought laundry and took your seat in the street-car and married you later on when you were old enough to know fetters.

F Scott Fitzgerald