Quotes About Liberalism

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

Liberalism is essentially the belief that there can be a reconciliation of all difficulties and differences, and since there can't, it is a misleading way to approach politics.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Liberals are not all going to say exactly the same at all times; I hope they never will, because they would cease to be Liberals.

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.

The Iron Law of Liberalism states that any market reform, any government initiative intended to reduce red tape and promote market forces will have the ultimate effect of increasing the total number of regulations, the total amount of paperwork, and the total number of bureaucrats the government employs.

Nowadays, it's almost impossible for anyone living in a liberal democracy to say they are against freedom – at least in the abstract (in practice, of course, our ideas are usually much more nuanced). This is one of the lasting legacies of the Enlightenment and of the American and French Revolutions.

ÖrneÄŸin Ä°ngiliz liberalizmi devlet bürokrasisinin azalt?lmas?na deÄŸil, tam aksine yol açm??t?r; özerk bireyler aras?nda özgür sözleÅŸme ÅŸeklindeki liberal rüyay? mümkün k?lan hukuk görevlileri, sicil memurlar?, müfettiÅŸler, noterler ve polis memurlar? kadrolar?n?n durmaks?z?n ÅŸiÅŸmesine.

The crisis of liberalism (and of American political reflection) is due to liberalism's success in becoming the official language for all public statement.

Marx is engaged in a critique of classical liberal political economy. He therefore finds it necessary to accept the theses of liberalism (and, by extension to our own times, neoliberalism) in order to show that the classical political economists were profoundly wrong even in their own terms.

The logical tendency of modernity, in its dominant liberal form, is to look on love as at best a matter of piety or good will, and not as the very stuff that makes our lives and the things of the world real, the basic order of our lives and of all things.

What's wrong with Barbara Kingsolver?" Eva asked. "She is the embodiment of liberal piety at its most middlebrow and tendentious. Her novels are the beef ribs of fiction.

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

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

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.

At the heart of liberalism really is a hatred for God and a belief that government should replace God.

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

The great achievement of liberal Protestantism was to make God boring.

The victory of liberalism enables them to sue their victors.

I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.