Alan Wolfe Quotes

In every society liberals are not very popular. Liberalism is not a populist movement.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

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

Liberalism! This is the slogan of every educated and sober-minded person in Russia. This is the banner which can unite about it people of all spheres, all estates, all inclinations. This is the word which can mold a powerful public opinion, if only we can shake off from ourselves self-destructive laziness and indifference to the common cause.

I know that liberalism isn't dead in this country.... It simply has, temporarily we hope, lost its voice.

The main principle and foundation of liberalism is the rejection of divine law.

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.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted — in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest — at the command — of his head.

Liberalism is essentially the belief that there can be a reconciliation of all difficulties and differences, and since there can't, it is a misleading way to approach politics.

'Liberal' is a great word - from the root, 'liberty,' which means free.

I still consider myself a liberal in the Enlightenment sense of the word. But I have to admit that being a liberal these days is confusing.

We in the West should stand by our core principles.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Of all the principles which constitute Liberal Democracy, internationalism is the clearest, the most distinctive, and the one with the longest history.

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

For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.

Sweden is an open, liberal, secular and democratic country. We strive towards achieving equality; we are forward-looking and refuse to be pulled back by social constructs such as religion.

Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown.

I love America, it's a much more permissive place.

I believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events in our country's history, starting with the Salem witch trials, where the conservative view was that they're witches and should be burned at the stake, and the liberal view was there's no such thing as witches.