Modern Liberalism Quotes:

Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic ideas and beliefs seem more satisfactory when they are not made fully explicit, when they merely lurk rather obscurely in the background, coloring the rhetoric and adding a certain emotive glow.

- James Burnham

topic: Ideas, Prejudice, Belief, Lurking, Modern Liberalism

Justice demands that the good and hard-working be rewarded and the evil and the lazy be punished (if only by the withholding of the rewards of doing the right things). Modern Liberalism demands that the good and hardworking be punished as the recipients of an unfair advantage and the evil and the lazy be rewarded, their acts of evil and their failure all the proof the Modern Liberal needs that somehow they have been victimized by forces out of their control.

- Evan Sayet

topic: Hard Work, Evil, Justice, Acts Of Evil, Modern Liberalism

The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.

- Charles Krauthammer

topic: Essence, Lunch, Modern, Modern Liberalism, Free Lunch

We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.

- Kevin Rudd

topic: Wings, Ugly, Modern, Modern Liberalism, Takeovers

Much of modern liberalism consists of people trying to get revenge on the football players they felt inferior to in school.

- Steve Sailer

topic: Football, Revenge, School, Modern Liberalism

Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade majesty John Stuart Mill' and revered by others.

- Alan Ryan

topic: Men, Ideas, Roots, Modern Liberalism

What happens when we examine the claims made for Western liberalism as a universalizing ideology of tolerance, human dignity, equality, and compassion is the fact that the patron saint of modern liberalism, John Stuart Mill, thought that barbarian peoples like the Indians were unfit for self-rule.

- Pankaj Mishra

topic: Compassion, Self, Tolerance, Modern Liberalism

In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in fear of God; albeit, the true foundation should be one's clinging to God in fear of God.

- Criss Jami

source: Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.53, Criss Jami

topic: Fear, Essence, World, Modern Liberalism

I explain how America hatred and Jew hatred are [INDEMIC] to Modern Liberalism and delve deeper into why it is the otherwise good and decent people will INVARIABLY side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.

- Evan Sayet

topic: America, People, Evil, Modern Liberalism

There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.

- Dennis Prager

source: "Moral Equivalence and Muslim Violence" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2010.

topic: New York, War, Evil, Modern Liberalism, Columbia University

The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.

- Noam Chomsky

topic: Running, Ideas, Ignorant, Marginalized, Meddlesome

The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Sex, Animal, Faces, Modern Liberalism, Repulsion