{"quotes":[{"text":"I need to say this – you shouldn't trust any government, actually including this one. You should not trust government – full stop. The natural inclination of government is to hoard power and information; to accrue power to itself in the name of the public good.","author":"Nick Clegg","tags":["government","liberalism"],"id":2378,"author_id":"Nick+Clegg"},{"text":"If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.","author":"Jonah Goldberg","tags":["conservatism","fascism","government","liberalism","political","politics","socialism"],"id":3780,"author_id":"Jonah+Goldberg"},{"text":"The insinuation that without a female president women cannot pursue and achieve their dreams is not only false but recalls the ever-condenscending liberal attitude towards women: 'We know what women want, even if they do not.","author":"Alyssa Bornhorst","tags":["antiidentitypolitics","aspirations","dreams","hopes","identitypolitics","leftwing","liberal","liberalism","women"],"id":4830,"author_id":"Alyssa+Bornhorst"},{"text":"I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a cause - but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they're preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can't be very good journalists; that is, if they carry it into their journa.","author":"Walter Cronkite","tags":["dogma","journalism","liberal","liberalism","objectivity","politics"],"id":5326,"author_id":"Walter+Cronkite"},{"text":"I'm a spiritual person, she said. 'I believe in Allah, you know, though I don't always call It 'Allah' and I pray the way I want to pray. Sometimes I just look out at the stars and this love-fear thing comes over me, you know? And sometimes I might sit in a Christian church listening to them talk about Isa with a book of Hafiz in my hands instead of the hymnal. And you know what, Yusef? Sometimes, every once in a while, I get out my old rug and I pray like Muhammad prayed. I never learned the shit in Arabic and my knees are uncovered, but if Allah has a problem with that then what kind of Allah do we believe in?","author":"Michael Muhammad Knight","tags":["allah","church","hafiz","islam","liberalism","muslim","prophet-muhammad-pbuh","spirituality"],"id":5407,"author_id":"Michael+Muhammad+Knight"},{"text":"Another basic characteristic of liberalism which constitutes a formidable obstacle to an oppressed group's liberation is its conception of human nature. If selfishness, aggressiveness, the drive to conquer and dominate, really are among defining human traits, as every liberal philosopher since Locke tries to convince us, the oppression in civil society—I.E. In the social sphere not regulated by the state—is a fact of life, and the basic civil relationship between a man and a women will always remain a battlefield. Woman, being less aggressive, is then either the less human of the two and doomed to subjugation, or else she must get more power-hungry herself and try to dominate man. Liberation for both is not feasible.","author":"Mihailo Markovic","tags":["aggression","domination","feminism","human","liberalism","man","order","power","relationship","subjugation","woman"],"id":8797,"author_id":"Mihailo+Markovic"},{"text":"It is illogical to say, as many etatists do, that liberalism is hostile to or hates the state, because it is opposed to the transfer of the ownership of railroads or cotton mills to the state. If a man says that sulphuric acid does not make a good hand lotion, he is not expressing hostility to sulphuric acid as such; he is simply giving his opinion concerning the limitations of its use.","author":"Ludwig von Mises","tags":["classical-liberalism","economics","etatism","government","liberalism","libertarianism","state","statism"],"id":11703,"author_id":"Ludwig+von+Mises"},{"text":"In the Judeo-Christian tradition, we carry forward the basic insight our fundamental relationship to the world is one of love. Christians say that “God is Love,” that God created the universe out of love. The source of God’s Creation is love, and our relationship to the possibility of meaning within this created world is in and through love. The Christian community is a reciprocal relationship among subjects who love and are loved. The subject maintains the meaning of God’s Creation by taking up a Christ-like love toward others. The appearance of meaning in the world—love’s product—is always a manifestation of the divine. Liberalism turns away from this entire tradition of thought, in party because of its association with religion, and in part because this tradition resists the analytic form of reason. For liberalism, religion is individualized and privatized, and thus it cannot be used in the explanation or justification of a public space. If it does invade the public, it threatens irrationality. But religion is no less an effort to understand the character of our experience, and even a secular philosophy must not ignore that experience. We cannot simply deny what we cannot place within our categories of analysis. (221).","author":"Paul W. Kahn","tags":["faith","judeo-christian","liberalism","love","politics","religion"],"id":12580,"author_id":"Paul+W.+Kahn"},{"text":"Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.","author":"Tony Blair","tags":["britain","conformism","liberalism","tolerance"],"id":12742,"author_id":"Tony+Blair"},{"text":"The twentieth century will have taught us that no doctrine in itself is necessarily a liberating force: all of them may be perverted or take a wrong turning; all have blood on their hands - communism, liberalism, nationalism, each of the great religions, and even secularism. Nobody has a monopoly on humane values.","author":"Amin Maalouf","tags":["communism","doctrine","liberalism","nationalism","religion","secularism"],"id":13385,"author_id":"Amin+Maalouf"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":161,"pages":17,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}