Liberalism Quotes - Page 20

• 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

  Taught Us, World, Lessons

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• The world is facing a historic turning point because the system of materialistic liberalism has come to a deadlock.

  Kingoro Hashimoto

  World, Materialistic, Historic

  "The China Monthly Review", vol. 106-107, p. 41, 1947.

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• The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in a few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless.

  Daniel Webster

  Government, Hands, Law

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.45, Beard Books

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• There is not a more dangerous experiment than to place property in the hands of one class, and political power in those of another... If property cannot retain the political power, the political power will draw after it the property.

  Daniel Webster

  Wisdom, Hands, Class

  Daniel Webster (1830). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.517

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• Extreme liberalism is not a political philosophy. It is a mental disorder.

  Michael Savage

  Philosophy, Political, Disorder

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• 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.

  David Mamet

  Spiritual, Feelings, Cost

  David Mamet (2011). “The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture”, p.53, Penguin

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• 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

  Impact, Pedestal, Citizens

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• Don't you just hate it when the war on terrorism interferes with political correctness and liberalism's equality fetish?

  Don Feder

  Hate, War, Political

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• Liberalism must be intolerant of every sort of intolerance.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Intolerance

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• 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

  Stupid, Mean, Wings

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.246, Vintage

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• Justice demands that the good and hard-working be rewarded and the evil and the lazy be punished (if only by the withholding of the rewards of doing the right things). Modern Liberalism demands that the good and hardworking be punished as the recipients of an unfair advantage and the evil and the lazy be rewarded, their acts of evil and their failure all the proof the Modern Liberal needs that somehow they have been victimized by forces out of their control.

  Evan Sayet

  Hard Work, Evil, Justice

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• Think of the French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, Ciudadanos in Spain, Nowoczesna in Poland. These are early efforts to reimagine a liberalism which is neither right-wing nor left-wing in the traditional sense.

  Anne Applebaum

  Thinking, Wings, Effort

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There is nobody better at deconstructing liberals than me. If there is, I haven't met 'em. This is not a brag. It's a statement of fact. Because I've spent my life studying them so that I can predict them, so that I can warn people, because liberalism is destructive, as we've seen our whole lives. Aspects of liberalism in America under its control are in rotten shape, they're in horrible, rotten shape, and the people that live under liberal control are miserable and unhappy and constantly enraged.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Unhappy, Study

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I can tell any liberal why he or she thinks what they think. I can predict to them what their reaction to any event or person is going to be, because I know them, because I have taken the time because I'm curious to study it. I know what liberalism is. I know from where it springs and derives, and I know the vast majority of people who are liberals, what they are going to do, say, and think about.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Spring, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• One of my quests from the beginning has been to inform people, educate people, sort of train people, if you will, to spot liberalism. The belief that liberalism is the source of the vast majority of our problems, clearly not all, but the vast majority, liberals and liberalism, and the more people trained to spot it, I think, have always believed that it would go a long way to go in defeating it. I think it does need to be defeated.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• If Trump does not start seeing things through an ideological prism, he will never understand the method, the motive, and the how and why these attacks against him happen. He doesn't see liberalism, and because he doesn't see liberalism, he can be outfoxed by it every day. He's not an ideological person.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Motive, Ideological

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I hear all of these liberals so concerned with people's health and so critical of tobacco cause it kills, it's deadly, and secondhand and third, and they've created a bunch of insane people out there. I'm telling you, liberalism has created literally deranged people afraid of everything. I mean it makes no sense to be afraid of secondhand smoke a hundred yards away from it. They have created this. They have created this inordinate fear of ordinary, everyday life.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, People, Everyday

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• According to liberals, you can't joke, there's no lighthearted banter. One cannot engage in any kind of traditional stereotypical humor because leftists cannot laugh at themselves. As I say, there's not much laughter in liberalism anyway. And they have all of these politically correct barriers up here.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Laughter, Laughing, Kind

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The politicized version of Shia Islam that we see in the Islamic Republic post-1979 clearly is very conservative, but, there are other things one could say about Ayatollah Khomeini's concept of a Shia state because that in itself is a blasphemy as far as most Shia clerics are concerned. There's a theory that he developed in the early 1960s in the town of Najaf talking about - well not liberalism, necessarily, but flexibility though.

  Sadakat Kadri

  Islamic, Conservative, 1960s

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Liberalism is unsustainable. When things go wrong in liberalism they pile more liberalism on top. Pretty good example of what's wrong with the US budget, US healthcare. Liberalism breaks it. Government breaks it. They pile more liberalism on top of it until it eventually implodes, like Obamacare is going to, or like Social Security is going to. All of these things, they're not sustainable, because liberalism isn't.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Healthcare, Break, Security

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Leftists are activists. This is a strategy. Liberalism, communism, socialism, you don't need to go too deep - a peripheral study of Marxism. And you'll learn that Marxism, leftism, liberalism, they have long-term strategies for taking over and controlling whole populations. It is their objective.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Study, Socialism, Communism

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I've always said that liberalism is one of the most gutless choices you can make. All you have to do to be acknowledged as a good liberal is to see suffering and tell people you see it, and that will convey you have a big heart and that you care and that you're troubled.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Heart, People, Choices

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Socialism, leftism, liberalism not only doesn't respect the unique abilities of free people; it attempts to quash them and to eliminate them. Because it's unfair not only to have more than somebody else, it's unfair to be better than anybody else at whatever you do. That's not fair. So we define everything down to the lowest common denominator. We take the people at the top, bring 'em down to people at the bottom and say that's equality. We punish achievement if liberalism and leftism rules the day. But capitalism is where the respect for unique abilities and freedom resides.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Unique, People, Achievement

  Source: origin-www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Liberalism has become a special kind of stupid.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Special, Kind

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The issue of religious liberty is absolutely critical. America was founded on three different types of liberty: political liberty, economic liberty, and religious and civil liberty. It's remarkable that, one-by-one, these strands of liberty are coming under fierce attack from the Left. And that's particularly ironic because "liberal" derives from a word which means "liberty," the free man as opposed to the slave. This liberalism which we're saddled with today isn't a real liberalism at all, but a gangster style of politics masquerading as liberalism.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Religious, Real, Mean

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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