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Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face. -- Thomas Sowell
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. -- William E. Gladstone
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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
Liberalism is Rationalism in politics. -- Francis Parker Yockey
Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose. -- Ted Nugent
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. -- Aristotle
Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism. -- Francis Parker Yockey
The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant. -- Francis Parker Yockey
Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea -- Francis Parker Yockey
Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown -- Francis Parker Yockey
Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force. -- Francis Parker Yockey
I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future. -- Oliver Stone
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives. -- Morris Raphael Cohen
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
Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. -- Morris Raphael Cohen
Liberalism is a mental disorder. -- Michael Savage
Liberalism means well, but it destroys -- Dennis Prager
Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. -- James Burnham
Liberalism doesn't speak to ideals. Radicalism does. -- Jeff Sharlet
Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism. -- Craig Reucassel
Liberalism isn't change. It has to be imposed. -- Rush Limbaugh
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Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism. -- Craig Reucassel
Liberalism must be intolerant of every sort of intolerance. -- Ludwig von Mises
Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy. -- Ernst Junger
Liberalism is moral syphilis. And I'm stepping over it. -- Jonathan Bowden
Liberalism is never gonna be that tiny or small. -- Rush Limbaugh
Liberalism is never gonna be that tiny or small. -- Rush Limbaugh
True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism. -- Herbert Hoover
Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity. -- Robert J. Shiller
Neo-Liberalism promised us a Global Village and gave us a Potemkin Village. -- Dean Cavanagh
Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother. -- Camille Paglia
Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem. -- Whitney M. Young
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism -- Francis Parker Yockey
Liberalism is a series of grievances in addition to everything else that it is. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Liberalism is a series of grievances in addition to everything else that it is. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant -- Francis Parker Yockey
Liberalism is part of a religious disorder that demands a belief that life is controllable. -- Ann Coulter
Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation! -- Ferdinand Lassalle
Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea. -- Francis Parker Yockey
Liberalism demands that people without guns be able to tell people with guns what to do. -- Stephen Holmes
Liberalism is a disease cured only by a lobotomy or 90 days in a third world country. -- Josh Bernstein
Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey. -- C. S. Lewis
Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown. -- Francis Parker Yockey
For the average American, the message is clear. Liberalism is no longer the answer. It is the problem. -- Ronald Reagan
Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world. -- Jack Nicholson
Liberalism Has Nearly Destroyed Black America, And Now Itâ??s Time For Black America To Return The Favor -- Elbert Guillory
Liberalism itself, is, on all matters connected with Church and Education, only a kind of corporate and "respectable" ungodliness. -- Henry Parry Liddon
Liberalism has consequences. It has never worked, folks! It has never worked. And it has never fulfilled its promise. -- Rush Limbaugh
No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one. -- George Seldes
Liberalism is wrong because it doesn't work. If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist. -- George Will
Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it. -- Hunter S. Thompson
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
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
Liberalism is a scourge. It destroys the human spirit. It destroys prosperity. It assigns sameness to everybody. And wherever I find it, I oppose it. -- Rush Limbaugh
Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue... -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Liberalism has become a special kind of stupid, and it's on full display now, which I think ultimately has the potential to be a good thing. -- Rush Limbaugh
Liberalism has become a special kind of stupid, and it's on full display now, which I think ultimately has the potential to be a good thing. -- Rush Limbaugh
Liberalism is dead, so dead that Democrats have all become moderate Republicans, and the heavy hand of Big Government is now limp and damp and trembly. -- Garrison Keillor
Liberalism is a force truly of the spirit proceeding from the deep realization that economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved. -- Herbert Hoover
The equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on the festering wound of Neo-Liberalism. -- Vanessa Veselka
Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war period and the civil rights period. -- Nat Hentoff
Liberalism is essentially the belief that there can be a reconciliation of all difficulties and differences, and since there can't, it is a misleading way to approach politics. -- Maurice Cowling
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
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
Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts. -- Jean-Francois Lyotard
Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts -- Jean-Francois Lyotard
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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
Liberalism, socialism, whatever, it is such a corrupting, destructive thing. And I believe it's the most destructive force in the world today, outside of, militarized weaponry and that kind of thing. -- Rush Limbaugh
Liberalism, socialism, whatever, it is such a corrupting, destructive thing. And I believe it's the most destructive force in the world today, outside of, militarized weaponry and that kind of thing. -- Rush Limbaugh
This is a hallmark trait of the left. There is never any effort to elevate anybody. Liberalism is all about tearing down. Liberalism is all about lowering. It is all about destroying 'em. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
This is a hallmark trait of the left. There is never any effort to elevate anybody. Liberalism is all about tearing down. Liberalism is all about lowering. It is all about destroying 'em. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
In the end, the difference between Conservatism and Liberalism seems to be this: the Conservative thinks of liberty as something to be preserved, the Liberal thinks of it as something to be enlarged. -- Clinton Rossiter
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
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
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.
I think the most basic difference between Liberalism and Conservatism today, at its core, is that Conservatives just seem to want a better world for themselves - while Liberals just seem to want a better world. -- Derek R. Audette
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Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us we cannot eat fatty foods, workplace roles that stifle opportunity, and absurd environmental regulations. -- John Stossel
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
Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like a hot new idea to liberals, but soon goes to irksome and destructive extremes. -- Joseph Sobran
[Libertarianism] is about curbing state power to let people be and do what they want. Liberalism is about using state power to make people do and be what liberals want. And that makes all the difference in the world. -- Jonah Goldberg
Conservatism is an active intellectual pursuit; it requires a constant vigilance. It has nothing to do with feelings. Liberalism is the most gutless choice you can make. You just see suffering and say, 'Oh, I feel so horrible!' -- Rush Limbaugh
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
Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. -- Morris Raphael Cohen
Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about liberalism - the beliefs, emotions and values associated with it, the nature of its enchantment, its practical record, its future - falls into place. -- Kyle Bristow
Church and State should be united in the White Man's religion.- Global White Racial Loyalty and Solidarity must be our constant goal.- Race is everything. In order to survive and prosper, the White Race must overcome its five main enemies: Judaism, Christianity, Communism, Liberalism and Nationalism. -- Ben Klassen
I explain how America hatred and Jew hatred are [INDEMIC] to Modern Liberalism and delve deeper into why it is the otherwise good and decent people will INVARIABLY side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success. -- Evan Sayet
Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs. -- Norman Mailer
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost
It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism. -- Oliver Stone
Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded. -- Pope Francis
A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism. -- Gunnar Myrdal
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. -- George Washington
That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against. -- Rush Limbaugh
Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone. -- Powell Clayton
It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein. -- Eva Hoffman
As with 'feminism,' not to mention 'liberalism' and 'conservatism,' 'political correctness' tends to mean what you want it to mean, which also pretty much amounts to utter meaninglessness. -- Meghan Daum
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
All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals from hard-working, taxpaying whites and gives the spoils to indolent, grasping blacks. -- Rick Perlstein
I try to make a dent in people when I can. I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is. -- Johnny Ramone
There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War. -- Dennis Prager
The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened. -- Norman Thomas
You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime. -- Tom Shales
There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left, which had been morally confused about Communism since its inception and had become essentially pacifist following the carnage of World War I. -- Dennis Prager
Feminism is liberalism, and look at what it's doing, look at what it's promoting, look at what it's condoning. All the while, we have to live in this lie that there's some sort of Republican War on Women. We don't do this to women! We don't objectify women like this. -- Rush Limbaugh
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
Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map. -- Camille Paglia
Liberalism and capitalism address themselves to the cool, well-balanced mind. They proceed by strict logic, eliminating any appeal to the emotions. Socialism, on the contrary, works on the emotions, tries to violate logical considerations by rousing a sense of personal interest and to stifle the voice of reason by awakening primitive instincts. -- Ludwig von Mises
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? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again? -- Mitt Romney
Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
No one is responsible under liberalism. -- David Horowitz
Economic knowledge necessarily leads to liberalism -- Ludwig von Mises

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