Quotes with liberalism

  • 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.
  • If the 19th 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.

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  • Abu Bakar Bashir But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals…
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Benito Mussolini If the 19th 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.
    The Doctrine of Fascism
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Camille Paglia In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called conservative, as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bill Kristol Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Thomas Sowell Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
    Thomas Sowell
    American economist, social theorist and political philosopher (1930 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination... from poverty.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Alexander Herzen 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
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Camille Paglia My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli 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.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Aristotle Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Noam Chomsky 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
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Carl Schmitt 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.
    Political Theology (1922)
    Carl Schmitt
    German political philosopher and legal scholar (1888 - 1985)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bobby Jindal 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
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Camille Paglia The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bill Kristol There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Adolf Hitler Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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