Quotes About Liberalism

Liberals shouldn't cede the responsibility to defend free speech on college campuses to conservatives. After all, without free speech, what's liberalism about?

What is political correctness, if not essentially redemptive speech? Soon liberalism had become a cultural identity that offered Americans a way to think of themselves as decent people. To be liberal was to be good.

The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.

aunque el liberalismo económico y político anglófono sigue siendo las más atractiva cultura del mundo, tiene el reto de hacer frente, como ha ocurrido desde la revolución iraní, a una seria amenaza procedente del fundamentalismo islámico.

Colonization proposals were crafted by intellectuals, reformers, and politicians--men (and occasionally women) who saw themselves as liberal in their sentiments. To be liberal in the early United States involved specific beliefs and actions: it meant that you embraced the rational thought of the Enlightenment, that you manifested a Christian benevolence to others, and most importantly, that you were determined to reject the temptations of prejudice.

My father's generation of Saudi men are more liberal than the men of my generation. But with women, it's the opposite.

Over the course of history, the answer to nationalism has been liberalism, and I believe it can be the answer again.

It is not white nationalism to recognize limiting principles on liberal universalism, and a justifiable role for particularity - ethnic, cultural, religious - in many political arrangements.

Biblicism, I have said, is impossible. But there are other approaches—including outright liberalism—that I think are even worse.

Bask? uygulayan çoÄŸunluk kötü olduÄŸuna göre, der liberal kiÅŸi, demek ki bask? gören grup sütten ç?kma ak ka??k olmal?d?r. Bu nas?l bir saçmal?kt?r, fark?nda m?s?n?z? Kötünün kendisinden daha kötü olanlar taraf?ndan bask? alt?na al?nmas? olmayacak ÅŸey mi? Arenadaki bütün H?ristiyan kurbanlar aziz mi olmal?lar?

Romanticism, so often ill-defined, is only ... liberalism in literature.

Conservatism is not an attractive trait.

Voters are scattered all over the ideological map, but there are strikingly few that thrill to the plutocratic combination of economic conservatism and social liberalism.

The tragedy of this country now is that most of the people who say they care about it do not care. What they care about is their safety and their profits. What they care about is not rocking the boat. What they care about is the continuation of white supremacy, so that white liberals who are with you in principle will move out when you move in.

The problem is my kids are liberal, maybe too liberal, and I have no one to blame but myself because I introduced them to Uncle O.J.

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

If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.

Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade majesty John Stuart Mill' and revered by others.

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.

Liberalism: for every complicated problem there exists both an intellectual and a moral solution and they coincide.

Classical liberalism was wrecked on the shoals of capitalism, but

With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.

The old and the new, the liberal touch and the patriarchal one, fatal poverty and fatalistic wealth got fantastically interwoven in that strange first decade of our century.

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