The 20 Best Quotes About How Liberals Think
Do you want to understand how liberals think even better than most of them understand themselves? Well, read and absorb these 20 quotes and you will be able to read liberals like a book.
20) "Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it." -- Rush Limbaugh
19) "Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them, the ends always seem to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag." -- Margaret Thatcher
18) "Once the government starts writing checks to people, the people getting the checks want to keep getting checks (particularly given that the majority of them get more from the government than they ever pay in). This has been the aim of liberalism since at least the New Deal, to turn Americans into clients of the state." -- Jonah Goldberg
17) "And many writers have imagined for themselves republics and principalities that have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for there is such a gap between how one lives and how one ought to live that anyone who abandons what is done for what ought to be done learns his ruin rather than his preservation: for a man who wishes to profess goodness at all times will come to ruin among so many who are not good." -- Niccolò Machiavelli
16) "Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help." -- Thomas Sowell
15) "Liberalism moves, therefore, toward radical individualism and the corruption of standards that movement entails. By destroying traditional social habits of the people, by dissolving their natural collective consciousness into individual constituents, by licensing the opinions of the most foolish, by substituting instruction for education, by encouraging cleverness rather than wisdom, the upstart rather than the qualified … Liberalism can prepare the way for that which is its own negation: the artificial, mechanized or brutalized control which is a desperate remedy for its chaos." -- Robert Bork
14) "You can never be ‘woke’ enough. That’s the problem. It keeps going. It keeps going further and further and further down the line, and you get to the point where you capitulate, where you agree to all these demands. It will eventually get to ‘straight white men are not allowed to talk.’ [It won’t stop] because it’s your privilege to express yourself when other people of color have been silenced throughout history. It will be ‘You’re not allowed to go outside because so many people were imprisoned for so many years.’ I mean, I’m not joking. It’s that crazy." -- Joe Rogan
13) "The left doesn't fight evil; it fights those who do." -- Dennis Prager
12) "Why does the left hate free speech? Because they don't know how to talk about the substantive merits when they are challenged. Having submerged themselves in disciplining each other by denouncing any heretics in their midst, they find themselves overwhelmed and outnumbered in America, where there is vibrant debate about all sorts of things they don't know how to begin to talk about. They resort to stomping their feet and shouting ‘shut up!’… when they aren't prissily imploring everyone to be ‘civil.’" -- Ann Althouse
11) "The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other (liberals) that their theories and the policies based on them lack common sense. But the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?" -- Thomas Sowell
10) "Liberals don't care. Their approach is to rip out society's foundations without asking if they serve any purpose. Why do we have immigration laws? What's with these borders? Why do we have the institution of marriage, anyway? What do we need standardized tests for? Hey, I like Keith Richards - why not make heroin legal? Let's take a sledgehammer to all these load-bearing walls and just see what happens!" -- Ann Coulter
9) "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." -- P.J. O’Rourke
8) "'Character' is no longer a liberal word because it implies self-restraint. 'Good and evil' are not liberal words either as they imply a moral standard beyond one’s feelings. In assessing what position to take on moral or social questions, the liberal asks him or herself, 'How do I feel about it?' or 'How do I show the most compassion?' — not 'What is right?' or 'What is wrong?' For the liberal, right and wrong are dismissed as unknowable, and every person chooses his or her own morality." -- Dennis Prager
7) "But all liberals only have empathy for the exact same victims — always the ones that are represented by powerful liberal interest groups." -- Ann Coulter
6) "Indiscriminateness of thought does not lead to indiscriminateness of policy. It leads the modern liberal to invariably side with evil over good, wrong over right, and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success. Why? Very simply, if nothing is to be recognized as better or worse than anything else then success is de facto unjust. There is no explanation for success if nothing is better than anything else and the greater the success the greater the injustice. Conversely and for the same reason, failure is de facto proof of victimization, and the greater the failure, the greater the proof of the victim is, or the greater the victimization." -- Evan Sayet
5) "So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot." -- George Orwell
4) "To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil." -- Charles Krauthammer
3) "A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money." -- G. Gordon Liddy
2) "Liberals hate religion because politics is a religion substitute for liberals, and they can’t stand the competition." -- Ann Coulter
1) "When one becomes a liberal, he or she pretends to advocate tolerance, equality, and peace, but hilariously, they’re doing so for purely selfish reasons. It’s the human equivalent of a puppy dog’s face: an evolutionary tool designed to enhance survival, reproductive value, and status. In short, liberalism is based on one central desire: to look cool in front of others in order to get love. Preaching tolerance makes you look cooler, than saying something like, 'please lower my taxes'" -- Greg Gutfeld
A good collection of quotes that accurately summarize the vapid and emotional impulses that pass for thought amongst the left today. While most of what they say is ignorant and ridiculous, sometimes it unintentionally functions as a perfect "reverse barometer" of what is factually true and actually ought to be done. Thanks for posting this list, John.
Coulter’s quote reminds me of what GK Chesterton said regarding fences.. that before one takes a fence down one should know why it was put up in the first place.