251 Quotes About Liberalism
- Author Ernst Jünger
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Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.
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- Author Criss Jami
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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.
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- Author Amit Kalantri
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A democratic mind is not attached to any single idea and open to all ideas.
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- Author John Chaplin
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The only place that liberalism can truly flourish is within a capitalist society.
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- Author Criss Jami
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There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older.
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- Author Bertrand Russell
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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- Author Margaret MacMillan
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In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order.
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- Author Iris Murdoch
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We are not isolated free choosers, monarchs of all we survey, but benighted creatures sunk in a reality whose nature we are constantly and overwhelmingly tempted to deform by fantasy.
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- Author Ludwig von Mises
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The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.
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