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Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly.
Trees loaded with fruit are bent down; the clouds when charged with fresh rain hang down near the earth: even so good men are not uplifted through prosperity. Such is the natural character of the liberal.
Liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the establishment.
Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal will be about socializing ... uh, um ... Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies.
[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.
This, without a doubt, is neoliberalism's single most damaging legacy: the realization of its bleak vision has isolated us enough from one another that it became possible to convince us that we are not just incapable of self-preservation but fundamentally not worth saving.
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.
Democracy has become Empire's euphemism for neo-liberal capitalism.
JP Morgan spelled it out: for neoliberalism to survive, democracy must fade.
There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.
The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin.
There is an authoritarian strain in all of Leftism
because the bigger the government, the more it controls other peoples' lives
A liberal is a noble and indispensable lunatic who tries to make a cosmos of his own head.
The leftist is anti-individualistic ... He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his own ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs.
a liberal who used human-rights issues to benefit and free criminals rather than think of the victim's
The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
One nanny said, "Feed a cold"; she was a neo-Keynesian. Another nanny said, "Starve a cold"; she was a monetarist.
Not only does the liberal paradigm not even come close to agreeing with the social and economic reality on the ground today, worse, it has largely congealed into a political religion ...
The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
Modern American liberalism is nothing but the socialism too stupid to recognize itself in the mirror.
Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon.
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
A form of conservatism that makes clear we have problems in this country, it's not just about individualism, we have to help people who feel they're being failed by the system.
A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.
Left-leaning policies - I'm 52 years old, I've been to Cuba, I've been to dysfunctional state oriented places - left-leaning policies fail the lower and middle classes.
Leftism is that impulse that wants to establish coercion and call it community. Apply
I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word.
At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.
I am a social liberal.
I still think like a Marxist in many ways.
I'm a neo-Luddite.
The move towards neoliberalism in Britain was intimately bound up with the embrace of the U.S. as the country to be aped and copied.
Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.
These are times when what used to be called liberal is now called radical; what used to be called radical is now called insane; what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate; and what used to be called insane is now called solid, neo-conservative thinking.
Schlesinger was a passionate believer in New Deal liberalism, which he saw as the only way to civilize capitalism. And
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.
I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.
I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.
The attitude of the liberal towards society is like that of the gardener who tends a plant and, in order to create the conditions most favorable to its growth, must know as much as possible about its structure and the way it functions.
[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism.
The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods
What you perceive as "liberal" is my independence to choose what i do, with whom, and when. Moreover, it also means that i may choose not to do it, with anyone, ever.
The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property.
An anarchist is an uncomprimising liberal.
The tone and tendency of liberalism ... is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.
The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.
Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic values from the top down. Whereas Islamists and far-right organizations, for decades, have been building demand for their ideology on the grassroots.
After flirting with neoisolationism, the U.S. is now deciding it wants to run the world.
The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.
Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
The second part of the New Right's policy package has been the belief that free-market solutions are always best. It is this latter view which is profoundly mistaken. Markets and profits are crucial, but the pure free-market model itself is deeply flawed.
For the South African White minority, neo-liberalism is apartheid with a clean conscience, called Democracy.
Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.
It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian ...
Reagonomics - a blend of monetarism and fiscal Keynesianism swathed in classical liberal and supply-side rhetoric - is in no way going to solve the problem of inflationary depression or of the business cycle.
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.
A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class.
I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.
The idea of liberalism has to be recreated. In the course of time it has lost so much of its clarity and attraction that it first has to rise like a new dawn in front of the people.
If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist.
The typical socialist ... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.
There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism
I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process.
I remember when being liberal meant being generous with your own money.
Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants; feminists find I am not enough of a woman; anarchists a petit-bourgeois who has sold out because I believe in universal suffrage.
The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.
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.
Conservatism solves problems libralism blows em up.
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic policy almost wholly surrendered to special interests.
That, in essence is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any controlling private power.
The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards - to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.
I am a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology.
I watch Glenn Beck and he's taught me well. Progressive is the new word for Communist
Bushism is Reaganism minus the passion for freedom.
The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty.
I want to reclaim 'liberal.' I'm a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.
The wealth creators of neoliberal mythology are some of the most effective wealth destroyers the world has ever seen.
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Liberals want the government to get bigger, and they want you to drive smaller cars, and they want to dictate the way you live.
The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.
I know of no better name than Anarchism.
A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.
I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.
RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.
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.
I've always had a Marxist understanding of history: democracy is a result of a broad modernization process that happens in every country. Neocons think the use of political power can force the pace of change, but ultimately it depends on societies doing it themselves.
Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.
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.
Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.
We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.
Governments are bigger than ever, but under neoliberalism they have far less pretense to being concerned with addressing non-corporate interests. And
Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.
My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.
I'm particularly struck by the neo-socialist concern for the well-being of plants, animals, lakes and rivers, rain forests and deserts - particularly when the concern for the environment appears far more intense than the concern for the human family.
Such terms as communism, socialism, Fabianism, the welfare state, Nazism, fascism, state interventionism, egalitarianism, the planned economy, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the New Frontier are simply different labels for much the same thing.
Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.
Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.