Liberalism Quotes

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.

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.

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

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.

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.

Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being.

Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.

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.

In my view, the future of politics is, without a doubt, social liberalism married to economic conservatism. Which means we have to make an economic argument to social liberals, that it's OK to vote for us. But we won't run the economy into the ground at the same time.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.

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.

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.

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

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant.

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.