Top 100 Quotes About Liberalism
#1. Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.
Pope Francis
#2. Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.
Craig Bruce
#3. In my view, the future of politics is, without a doubt, social liberalism married to economic conservatism. Which means we have to make an economic argument to social liberals, that it's OK to vote for us. But we won't run the economy into the ground at the same time.
Louise Mensch
#4. Liberalism Has Nearly Destroyed Black America, And Now It's Time For Black America To Return The Favor
Elbert Guillory
#5. Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism continues to enjoy the traction that it does in our poor civilization.
L. Neil Smith
#6. Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.
Whitney M. Young
#7. I think the metric by which television is considered liberal is literally based on the metric of liberalism in each person's soul. Peoples' senses of humor tend to go about as far as their ideology.
Jon Stewart
#8. If liberalism has grown so weak and ineffective, why does it evoke such alarm on the part of conservatives? It turns out that while liberals are weak and spineless, they are also sneaky and clever.
Eric Alterman
#9. I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.
Criss Jami
#10. Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#11. liberalism and democracy, with all of their limitations, are what remains after every utopia and extremist scheme based on blood and territory has been exposed and shattered by reality.
Robert D. Kaplan
#12. The conservative social critique always boils down to the same simple message: liberalism - meaning everything from racy TV to deconstructionists in the Yale French Department - is an affectation of the loathsome rich, as bizarre as their taste for Corgi dogs and extra-virgin olive oil.
Thomas Frank
#13. The "compleat diplomat" of the future should remain cognizant of realism's emphasis on the inescapable role of power, keep liberalism's awareness of domestic forces in mind, and occasionally reflect on constructivism's vision of change.
Stephen M. Walt
#14. My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#15. The publication of Friedrich A. von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom in 1944 is rightly seen as the first shot in the intellectual battle that was to turn the tide in favor of conservatism i.e. non-statist liberalism .
E. J. Dionne
#17. Whenever all men are ... hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.
C.S. Lewis
#18. One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.
Richard John Neuhaus
#19. I'm talking about just as an ongoing, everyday matter of daily life, one of the most destructive things if not the most is radical liberalism, leftism. And it is clear that they are making great strides in corrupting once-great institutions and once-great traditions.
Rush Limbaugh
#20. Those who treat the muslim woman not as an individual but as a symbol either of Islamic chastity or secular liberalism are guilty of the same sin : the objectification of women
Reza Aslan
#21. It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.
Eva Hoffman
#22. Now, there's a desire for order, authority coming from a feeling that society has gone too far to the side of individualism and liberalism.
Marion Marechal-Le Pen
#23. I don't want to be a dictator, because it is contrary to my own conscience. I am a democrat, but I don't desire democratic liberalism. On the contrary, I want a guided democracy ... I have a conception of my own, which I will put at the disposal of the party leaders if required.
Sukarno
#24. If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.
Nick Clegg
#25. There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."
Fulton J. Sheen
#26. Liberalism, the dominant ideology of our time, has been dangerously distorted by the impact of economism. It is that impact which has knocked the citizen off his pedestal and replaced him with the consumer.
Larry Siedentop
#27. It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
Oliver Stone
#28. Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity.
Dan Savage
#29. The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant.
Francis Parker Yockey
#31. At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.
P. J. O'Rourke
#32. I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
Tariq Ali
#33. Liberalism is dead, so dead that Democrats have all become moderate Republicans, and the heavy hand of Big Government is now limp and damp and trembly.
Garrison Keillor
#34. Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
Hunter S. Thompson
#35. Barack Obama's political roots are liberal, but he has always resisted buying into the brand of liberalism that denigrates American greatness and potential.
Nina Easton
#36. Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
William Ewart Gladstone
#37. The fact that the Catholic Church has come to an agreement with Fascist Italy ... proves beyond doubt that the Fascist world of ideas is closer to Christianity than those of Jewish liberalism or even atheistic Marxism ...
Adolf Hitler
#38. The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.
Noam Chomsky
#39. Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.
Jack Nicholson
#40. The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.
Alan Keyes
#41. Don't you just hate it when the war on terrorism interferes with political correctness and liberalism's equality fetish?
Don Feder
#42. That is [liberalism's] goal - to destroy the family [liberals] just made up this gay marriage thing gays are natural conservatives.
Ann Coulter
#43. The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism' ... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.
John Gresham Machen
#44. Liberalism, socialism, whatever, it is such a corrupting, destructive thing. And I believe it's the most destructive force in the world today, outside of, militarized weaponry and that kind of thing.
Rush Limbaugh
#45. I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
Oliver Stone
#46. We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism ... we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today ... our battle is with Satan himself.
Jerry Falwell
#47. Liberalism is a series of grievances in addition to everything else that it is.
Rush Limbaugh
#48. God transcends and encompasses conservatism and liberalism, certainty and doubt, simplicity and complexity, Divinity and humanity, crucifixion and resurrection.
Amos Smith
#49. Liberalism is moral syphilis. And I'm stepping over it.
Jonathan Bowden
#50. The good news is that a vast majority of Indians from different religions see no contradiction between religiosity and liberalism, keep India stable. We religious liberals don't talk loudly enough.
Amish Tripathi
#51. And so liberalism had become a habit of Stepan Arkadyevitch's, and he liked his newspaper, as he did his cigar after dinner, for the slight fog it diffused in his brain.
Leo Tolstoy
#52. Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being.
Marc Forne Molne
#53. I believe the default position in life is liberalism. You have to work at being a Conservative.
Josh Bernstein
#54. The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.
Pope Pius IX
#55. If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century, and therefore the century of the state.
Benito Mussolini
#56. The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred ... the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse to the strategem of inventing for oneself a liberalism according to one's own tastes and passing it off as an evolution from past ideas.
Ralph Raico
#57. Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.
Alexander Herzen
#58. There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left, which had been morally confused about Communism since its inception and had become essentially pacifist following the carnage of World War I.
Dennis Prager
#59. This is a hallmark trait of the left. There is never any effort to elevate anybody. Liberalism is all about tearing down. Liberalism is all about lowering. It is all about destroying 'em.
Rush Limbaugh
#61. In no other field has the world yet paid so dearly for the abandonment of nineteenth-century liberalism as in the field where the retreat began: in international relations. Yet only a small part of the lesson which experience ought to have taught us has been learned.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#62. Between Pope Francis tour of the U.S. which I think was a triumph really for liberals, he really sort of for the first time in a long time made the Catholics sort of on the side of liberalism.
Joy-Ann Reid
#63. Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about liberalism - the beliefs, emotions and values associated with it, the nature of its enchantment, its practical record, its future - falls into place.
Kyle Bristow
#64. Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State ... Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.
Benito Mussolini
#65. Every ... subsection of liberalism is always busy attacking another subsection of liberalism, because god forbid they should all band together and actually fight for the cause.
Joss Whedon
#66. [C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.
Jonah Goldberg
#67. Liberalism is part of a religious disorder that demands a belief that life is controllable.
Ann Coulter
#68. Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.
Camille Paglia
#69. The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and more interesting life. In a word, science and liberalism ... have accomplished the very things for which religion claims the credit.
E. Haldeman-Julius
#70. Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!
Ferdinand Lassalle
#71. The essence of liberalism is negotiation, a cautious half measure, in the hope that the definitive dispute, the decisive bloody battle, can be transformed into a parliamentary debate and permit the decision to be suspended forever in an everlasting discussion.
Carl Schmitt
#72. Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.
Pierre Trudeau
#73. There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.
Dennis Prager
#74. "Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism.
Mark Steyn
#75. Liberalism doesn't speak to ideals. Radicalism does.
Jeff Sharlet
#77. In the druidical religion of liberalism, not separating your recyclables is a sin, but abortion is just a medical procedure.
Ann Coulter
#78. The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.
Richard A. Epstein
#79. Keynes died in 1946, exhausted by his wartime labors. But he had long since demonstrated that neither capitalism nor liberalism would survive very long without one another.
Tony Judt
#80. The tone and tendency of liberalism ... is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.
Benjamin Disraeli
#81. There is no greater example of government overreach and unrestrained liberalism than 'Obamacare.' It is so deeply flawed and such a clear and present threat to our economic stability that there is no way to fix it.
Tommy Thompson
#82. 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.
Rush Limbaugh
#83. In India, it is not a contradiction for religion and liberalism to co-exist.
Amish Tripathi
#84. Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality. And the rhetoric of liberalism - labeling each new entitlement a 'right reinforces this sense of entitlement.' -
Dennis Prager
#85. Perverted self-love, when it became political, created individualism, or historical liberalism; perverted love of others, when it became political, created totalitarianism.
Fulton J. Sheen
#86. 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
#88. [American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.
Jonah Goldberg
#89. [T]he nags ... the national association of gals, that's our pet name for the NOW gang ... the nags are a bunch of whores to liberalism.
Rush Limbaugh
#90. Schlesinger was a passionate believer in New Deal liberalism, which he saw as the only way to civilize capitalism. And
David Talbot
#91. I think the most basic difference between Liberalism and Conservatism today, at its core, is that Conservatives just seem to want a better world for themselves - while Liberals just seem to want a better world.
Derek R. Audette
#92. I explain how America hatred and Jew hatred are [INDEMIC] to Modern Liberalism and delve deeper into why it is the otherwise good and decent people will INVARIABLY side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.
Evan Sayet
#93. Liberalism has consequences. It has never worked, folks! It has never worked. And it has never fulfilled its promise.
Rush Limbaugh
#94. Because I'm criticizing liberalism, people automatically call me a conservative. This is madness! The idea that somehow one cannot critique liberalism from the left, from the left wing of liberalism. I mean, how can people be so stupid?
Camille Paglia
#95. The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property.
Ludwig Von Mises
#96. The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people.
Bobby Jindal
#97. The global policy shift toward neo-liberalism that took place during the 1980s and 1990s was supposed, according to its proponents, to bring a convergence of living standards of richer and poorer nations. This never actually happened.
Noreena Hertz
#98. Liberalism: for every complicated problem there exists both an intellectual and a moral solution and they coincide.
Theodore H. White
#100. I wish the city of San Francisco, bastion of liberalism, were more innovative when it comes to how to spread the wealth.
Leila Janah
