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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)


Paul W. Kahn


#judeo-christian #liberalism #love #politics #religion

Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.


Jim Hightower


#approach #been #challenge #classic #concentrated

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.


David Mamet


#cannot #capacity #cost #demonstrated #destruction

Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.


Ted Nugent


#choose #liberalism #life #may #quality

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.


Alexander Herzen


#austere #constant #ever #government #learned

[T]hose who are in a position of strength have a responsibility to protect the weak.


Thomas Cushman


#intervention #iraq #iraq-war #liberalism #iraq

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.


Whitney M. Young


#liberalism #people #problem #related #seems

Nowadays, you can do anything that you want—anal, oral, fisting—but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection.


Slavoj Žižek


#condoms #fisting #liberalism #oral-sex #protection

The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone; don't harass me; I'm intolerant towards your over-proximity.


Slavoj Žižek


#intolerance #liberalism #sexual-harassment #tolerance #liberalism

Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom. Thus, while diminishing our feeling of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our knowledge as to what the may be; it removes the somewhat arrogant dogmatism of those who have never travelled into the region of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive our sense of wonder by showing familar things in an unfamilar aspect


Bertrand Russell


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