Liberalism Quotes - Page 7

• Liberalism teaches those who have fallen behind in the economic scramble to blame others for their failure. This attitude stimulates juices of resentment and deprives its holders of the power to change their condition.

  David Horowitz

  Attitude, Juice, Resentment

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• Liberalism's key principle is to redistribute wealth from the haves to the have nots. That takes money from the entities with the greatest potential to improve society (for example, corporations that create jobs, invent life-saving medicines, etc.) and redistributes it to the people, whom on average, will never contribute more to society than to hold a menial job.

  Marty Nemko

  Jobs, Keys, Average

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

  Joseph Sobran

  Politics, Slow Motion, Communism

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• 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

  Government, People, Belief

  "Jindal: Obama's woes flow out of big government philosophy" By Bobby Jindal, www.cnn.com. May 24, 2013.

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• Some years ago a top Ford official was showing the late Walter Reuther through the very automates plant in Cleveland, Ohio and he said to him jokingly, "Walter, you'll have a hard time collecting union dues from these machines." and Walter said, "you are going to have more trouble trying to sell automobiles to them." Both of them let it stop there. There was a logical answer to that ... the owners of the machines could buy automobiles and if you increase the number of owners you increase the number of consumers.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wisdom, Hard Times, Numbers

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• Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

  James Madison

  Wisdom, Politics, Economy

  The Federalist no. 10 (1788)

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• Liberalism means well, but it destroys

  Dennis Prager

  Mean, Wells

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• I was the first to tell people, my success doesn't depend on who wins elections, 'cause I can't control that. But I do have an agenda deconstructing the left, informing people what liberalism is, how to spot it, who liberals are, and all that, but still within the confines of the business that I'm in, in broadcasting.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Winning, People, Agendas

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Politics, Economy, Century

  Hilaire Belloc (1931). “Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1533-1556”

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• It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

  Horace

  Politics, Common, Economy

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• Our problem today is not how to expropriate the expropriators but, rather, how to arrange matters so that the masses, dispossessed by industrial society in capitalist and socialist systems, can regain property. For this reason alone, the alternative between capitalism and socialism is false-not only because neither exists anywhere in its pure state anyhow, but because we have here twins, each wearing different hats.

  Hannah Arendt

  Wisdom, Different, Alternatives

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• The organized labor movement as it is constituted today is as much a concomitant of a capitalist economy as is capital. Organized labor is predicated upon the basic premise of collective bargaining between employers and employees. This premise can obtain only for an employer-employee type of society. If the labor movement is to maintain its own identity and security, it must of necessity protect that kind of society.

  Saul Alinsky

  Capitalist Economy, Identity, Movement

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Reveille for Radicals”, p.27, Vintage

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• Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as the poor, all that accrues from the revenues should be collected into a single fund and distributed in block grants to those in need, if possible in lump sums large enough for the acquisition of a small piece of land, but if not, enough to start a business, or work in agriculture. And if that cannot be done for all, the distribution might be by tribes or some other division each in turn.

  Aristotle

  Block, Agriculture, Land

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• And what has come to prevail in democracies is the very reverse of beneficial, in those, that is, which are regarded as the most democratically run. The reason for this lies in the failure properly to define liberty. For there are two marks by which democracy is thought to be defined: "sovereignty of the majority" and "liberty." "Just" is equated with what is equal, and the decision of the majority as to what is equal is regarded as sovereign; and liberty is seen in terms of doing what one wants.

  Aristotle

  Running, Lying, Two

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• Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Philosophy, Past, Important

  Liberal leadership convention, 1968.

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• Jefferson, though the secret vote was still unknown at the time had at least a foreboding of how dangerous it might be to allow the people to share a public power without providing them at the same time with more public space than the ballot box and with more opportunity to make their voices heard in public than on election day. What he perceived to be the mortal danger to the republic was that the Constitution had given all power to the citizens, without giving them the opportunity of being citizens and of acting as citizens.

  Hannah Arendt

  Wisdom, Opportunity, Space

  Hannah Arendt (1963). “On revolution”, Viking Press

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• Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

  Aristotle

  Wisdom, Good Life, Acquisition

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• Radicals, on the other hand, want to advance from the jungle of laissez-faire capitalism to a world worthy of the name of human civilization. They hope for a future where the means of economic production will be owned by all of the people instead of just a comparative handful. They feel that this minority control of production facilities is injurious to the large masses of people not only because of economic monopolies but because the political power inherent in this form of centralized economy does not augur for an ever expanding democratic way of life.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Hands, Civilization

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• Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

  Aristotle

  Wisdom, Men, Attention

  Aristotle,, Sir Ernest Barker, R. F. Stalley (2009). “The Politics”, p.42, Oxford University Press

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• Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the philosophers themselves. If then anyone there be who, boastfully taking pride in his supposed wisdom, wishes to challenge what we have written, let him not do it in some corner nor before children who are powerless to decide on such difficult matters. Let him reply openly if he dare. He shall find me there confronting him, and not only my negligible self, but many another whose study is truth.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Children, Pride, Errors

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• You may twist the word freedom as long as you please, but at last it comes to quiet enjoyment of your own property, or it comes to nothing. Why do men want any of those things that are called political rights and privileges? Why do they, for instance, want to vote at elections for members of parliament? Oh! Because they shall then have an influence over the conduct of those members. And of what use is that? Oh! Then they will prevent the members from doing wrong.

  William Cobbett

  Men, Rights, Long

  William Cobbett (2012). “A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland”, p.231, TAN Books

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• Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property, some things he will place at the disposal of his friends, while of others he shares the use of them.

  Aristotle

  Wisdom, Men, Use

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• With conglomerates selling companies to liquidators, who close down plants and move to non-union areas, it's about time progressive union leaders step in to stop such job-losing tactics... ESOP should become a part of future bargaining packages!

  Tom Colicchio

  Wisdom, Jobs, Moving

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• Political democracy cannot flourish under all economic conditions. Democracy requires an economic system which supports the political ideals of liberty and equality for all. Men cannot exercise freedom in the political sphere when they are deprived of it in the economic sphere.

  Mortimer Adler

  Exercise, Men, Support

  Louis O. Kelso, Mortimer J. Adler (2017). “The Capitalist Manifesto”, p.6, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• 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.

  Camille Paglia

  Years, Intellectual, Twenties

  "Sex, Art and American Culture: New Essays". Book by Camille Paglia, 1992.

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