Liberalism Quotes - Page 26

• [C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Ideas, Foundation, Movement

  Jonah Goldberg (2009). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.371, Penguin UK

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• For liberalism is a delicate thing. It encompasses so much -- constitutional government, democratic elections, freedom of worship, civil rights, free trade -- that we think of it as timeless and universal. But liberalism came into being in a real place and time, like a flame it has wavered in various eras, and it can be snuffed out.

  Russell Shorto

  Real, Thinking, Flames

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• Liberalism is moral syphilis. And I'm stepping over it.

  Jonathan Bowden

  Syphilis, Moral, Over It

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• 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

  Reality, Government, Individualism

  "The Doctrine of Fascism" by Benito Mussolini, Firenze: Vallecchi Editore, (p. 13), 1935.

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• Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.

  Benito Mussolini

  Government, Political, Humanity

  Benito Mussolini (2012). “My Autobiography: With "The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism"”, p.236, Courier Corporation

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• Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does.

  Nick Clegg

  Attitude, Doe, Different

  The Economist Interview, www.economist.com. March 11, 2010.

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• It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Mean, Land

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.154, Hackett Publishing

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• The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.

  Max Stirner

  Men, Political, Dominion

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.105, Cambridge University Press

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• Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Intellectual, Satisfaction, Accepting

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.151, Beacon Press

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• Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the part of the United States, thus opposing any action in the real world to resist Soviet expansionism. If the Democrats were, as he advocates, to return to the Trumanesque anti-totalitarian liberalism that held sway in the party from roughly 1947 to 1972, the party and the country would be better off.

  Rich Lowry

  Country, Real, War

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• [Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.

  William Safire

  Class, Politics, Resentment

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• In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes on everyone else, your ability to argue coherently - let alone entertainingly - inevitably wanes.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Talking, Skills, Academia

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• The ACLU's record, far from showing a momentary wavering from impartiality, is replete with attemps to reform American society according to the wisdom of liberalism. The truth of the matters is that the ACLU has always been a highly politicized organization.

  William Anthony Donohue

  Organization, Reform, Records

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• U.S. labor leaders will realize that automation can multiply man's wealth far more rapidly than it is multiplying at present and that automation will leave all men free to search and research... Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Mean, Men, Leader

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• Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Inspirational, Humor, Government

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• It doesn't benefit me to lie to people. They're eventually going to find out the truth, and then where am I? That's the problem with liberalism and socialism, by the way: it has to be propped up by lies.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Lying, People, Benefits

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• The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Wisdom, Democracy, Apathy

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• Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.

  Ted Nugent

  Quality, May, Assisting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

  Camille Paglia

  Generations, Excess, Destroyed

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• In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.'

  Steven Pinker

  Class, Ideas, Political

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.154, Penguin

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• What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record?

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Real, School

  "CNN's Jim Acosta Plays Up Romney 'Falling off Message' on Obama and Treason". Interview with Jim Acosta, www.newsbusters.org. May 8, 2012.

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• The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.

  Paul Ryan

  Government, Matter, Belief

  "Saving the American Idea: Rejecting Fear, Envy, and the Politics of Division". Speech at The Heritage Foundation, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), www.heritage.org. November 15, 2011.

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• People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

  Zadie Smith

  People, Interesting, Political

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• I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Running, Mistake, Party

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• The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Wisdom, Quality, Citizens

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