L Quotes
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“Liberalism is moral syphilis. And I'm stepping over it.”
“Liberalism is never gonna be that tiny or small.”
“Liberalism is part of a religious disorder that demands a belief that life is controllable.”
Source: How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter
“Liberalism is probably the root of most of the problems they face in life, including raising their kids, including educating their kids, practically every walk of life, because everything today's political.”
“Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.”
“Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; and property, because it means material independence of the state.”
“Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at ist own expense, to leave room in the state over which it rules for those to live who neither think nor feel as it does, that is to say as do the stronger, the majority.”
“Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.”
“Liberalism is the party of upstarts who have insinuated themselves between the people and its big men. Liberals feel themselves as isolated individuals, responsible to nobody. They do not share the nation’s traditions, they are indifferent to its past and have no ambition for its future. They seek only their own personal advantage in the present. Their dream is the great International, in which the differences of peoples and languages, races and cultures will be obliterated.”
Source: Germany's Third Empire
“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.”
“Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.”
“Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo
“Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.”
“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.”
Source: Controversial Essays
“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.”
“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.”
“Liberalism is wrong because it doesn't work. If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.”
“Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.”
“Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a doctrine gradually elaborated over several centuries, which offered a new concept of social order, encompassing freedom in the only form suited to the modern world. Step by step, in practice and theory, the various sectors of human activity were withdrawn from the jurisdiction of coercive authority and given over to the voluntary action of self-regulating society.”
“Liberalism isn't change. It has to be imposed.”
“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.”
“Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.”
“Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is partly derived from a romantic conception of human nature... It assumes that the socialization of property will eliminate human egotism... The development of a managerial class in Russia, combing economic with political power, is an historic refutation of the Marxist theory.”
“Liberalism means well, but it destroys”
“Liberalism must be intolerant of every sort of intolerance.”
“Liberalism postulated the rational and 'progressive' evolutionary nature of the historical process. Besides success it upheld pragmatism, tolerance and compromise as the principal political virtues. At the core of the liberal outlook stood the 'idea of limits'. It abhorred excess and extremism; it believed that 'absolutist' thought of any sort assured at least failure if not perdition. All problems were seen as soluble with the application of reason; and reason, Liberals believed, ultimately did prevail. Reason, in fact, suffused all and was identified with reality.”
Source: The Roots of Appeasement: The British Weekly Press and Nazi Germany During 1930s
“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.”
Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings
“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.”
“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.”
Source: The Faith of a Liberal
“Liberalism’s fatal hypocrisy […] was to rejoice in the virtuous Jills and Jacks, the neighborhood butchers, bakers and brewers, so as to defend the vile East India Companies, the Facebooks, the Amazons, which know no neighbors, have no partners, respect no moral sentiments [the other book by Adam Smith] and stop at nothing to destroy their competitors.”
Source: Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present
“Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.”
“Liberalism should be found not striving to spread bureaucracy but striving to set bounds to it. True liberalism seeks all legitimate freedom first in the confident belief that without such freedom the pursuit of all other blessings and benefits is vain. That belief is the foundation of all American progress, political as well as economic.”
Source: Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.”
“Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.”
“Liberalism, communism, socialism are about denying individual liberty and creating a collective with a top down command-and-control government and economy. Conservatives are individuals and not activists at all, and so there is no such strategy to bend, shape, and form a country.”
“Liberalism, conservatism, that's irrelevant stuff to Trump. He looks at things in an entirely different way. This is a reason why we, as conservatives, have to remain vigilant as we can to the ideological component of what's going on here, because as it succeeds, we need to be able to tell people why it's working and at the same time be able to contrast and say why it didn't work when the liberals ran the show. This is an ongoing effort.”
“Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.”
Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“Liberality is not giving much, but giving wisely.”
Source: Autobiography and Other Writings
“Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.”
“Liberalizar es precisamente lo que el populista y el totalitario no quieren porque desean mantener el control de la población en sus manos. Nada hace más dependiente a la gente del poder que el control sobre sus ingresos, sus trabajos y sus propiedades.”
Source: El engaño populista
“Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolution.”
“Liberalni filozofowie, z pozoru indywidualiści, byli prawdziwymi kolektywistami w tym sensie, że bronili interesów wielu jednostek, a nie tylko praw wąskiej grupy uprzywilejowanych, gdy tymczasem protagoniści ideologii kolektywistycznych (o orientacji czy to narodowej czy klasowej) zajmowali się głównie usprawiedliwianiem prawa nielicznych wybrańców do poświęcania dla własnych celów (definiowanych jako dobro wspólne) wielkiej liczby bezsilnych ludzi" (Czarnoksięstwo w naukach społecznych, s. 189)”
“Liberals always exempt themselves from the rules that they impose on others.”
“Liberals always feel your pain. Unless of course, they caused it.”