Liberalism Quotes - Page 27

• Perhaps my children will one day pledge their loyalty to the Republican Party. Or perhaps they'll dismiss my liberalism as mild pap, and become anarchists. Either way may well be a reaction to my manipulation, my values. We are all the product of the indoctrination we received at the hands of our parents, even when we are repudiating that ideology.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Loyalty, Children, Party

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• Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has deliberately aggravated the fiscal shambles that the Great Recession accelerated.

  George Will

  Believe, Administration, Aggravated

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• If liberalism discredited itself, Obama woulda never gotten elected, and the New Deal woulda gone by the wayside, and LBJ woulda never gotten the Great Society. Liberalism does not discredit itself. It has to be explained and beaten back.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Doe, Gone, Lbj

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• Liberalism has consequences. It has never worked, folks! It has never worked. And it has never fulfilled its promise.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Promise, Folks, Fulfilled

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• Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Liberty, Value Of Love, Solidarity

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• He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

  William Blake

  Art, Hypocrite, Politics

  Jerusalem ch. 3, plate 55, l. 60 (1815)

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• If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Suggestions, Ten Commandments, Ifs

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• If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

  Nick Clegg

  Opportunity, Keys, Trying

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• Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

  e. e. cummings

  Wisdom, Mind, Politics

  E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.276, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

  Frederick Douglass

  Literature, Slavery, Politics

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “The Complete Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Terry Eagleton

  War, Enemy, Sides

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• Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

  Pope Francis

  Strong, Weak, Excluded

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.

  Jim Hightower

  Destiny, Order, Empowering

  "Populism Is Not A Style" by Jim Hightower, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2009.

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• Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Evil, Suffering, Unalienable Rights

  Declaration of Independence (1776)

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• Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!

  Ferdinand Lassalle

  Uprising, Vexation, Berlin

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• I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Class, Phrases, Misery

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• I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

  Abigail Adams

  Wisdom, Power, Men

  Abigail Adams, John P. Kaminski (2009). “The Quotable Abigail Adams”, p.185, Harvard University Press

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• Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Reform, Politics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1191, Delphi Classics

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• Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone, must begin to realize that they have to be more than passively good-hearted, more than church goingly Christian, and much more than word-of-mouth in the liberalism.

  Langston Hughes

  Christian, Nice, People

  Langston Hughes (1995). “Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62”, p.104, University of Illinois Press

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• [T]he nags ... the national association of gals, that's our pet name for the NOW gang ... the nags are a bunch of whores to liberalism.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Pet Names, Association

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• Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Fear, Risk, Trying

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• Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community.

  James Luther Adams

  Religious, Effort, Community

  James Luther Adams (1976). “On being human religiously: selected essays in religion and society”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day; others five or six times in their life, or never. Some make love with dozens of women, others with none. It’s what’s known as ‘the law of the market’… In a totally liberal sexual system certain people have a varied and exciting erotic life; others are reduced to masturbation and solitude.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Men, Law, People

  Michel Houellebecq (2011). “Whatever: A Novel”, p.99, Profile Books

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• What Asia's postwar economic miracle demonstrates is that
  capitalism is a path toward economic development that is potentially
  available to all countries. No underdeveloped country in the
  Third World is disadvantaged simply because it began the growth
  process later than Europe, nor are the established industrial powers
  capable of blocking the development of a latecomer, provided
  that country plays by the rules of economic liberalism.

  Francis Fukuyama

  Country, Block, Europe

  Francis Fukuyama (2006). “End of History and the Last Man”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• I will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Wisdom, Party, Independent

  Retirement speech. St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri), April 11, 1907.

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