Liberalism Quotes Flashcards
Rawls quote on freedom
‘Liberties, if left unrestricted, collide’
Locke on freedom
‘Where there is no law, there is no freedom’
Kant on individualism
‘Ends in themselves’
Rawls on equality
‘Equality of fairness’
Harm Principle
Mill
What is the difference principle and who said it
- Rawls
- Inequality in society is only acceptable if it helps the least well-off
What did Lord Acton say on power
‘Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely’
Jefferson’s inalienable rights
‘Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’
Smith’s economic idea
The invisible hand - the market regulates itself
What did sumner say on equality
‘The drunkard in the gutter is where he ought to be’
What did Green promote
- Larger state as a guarantor of rights
- Unrestrained pursuit of profit creates extremes of poverty and wealth - state should tackle this
Keynes on the economy
- tax and spend to reflate the economy
Mill on individualism/rationalism
‘Over his mind and body, the individual is sovereign’
Mill on the despotism of custom
- despotism of custom crushes self-expression
- need to facilitate ‘experiments in living’
Mill on rationalism
- Marketplace of ideas
- a ‘fact’ must place the rigours of open debate
- majority opinion can be wrong
- advocated from female emancipation
Locke’s inalienable rights
‘Life, liberty and property’
Paine on the state
‘Necessary evil’
Locke on the state
‘Night watchman’
Jefferson on the state
‘The government is best which governs the least’
Spencer on equality
‘Survival of the fittest’ developed into a social idea
Smiles on equality (also self-interest)
‘Heaven helps those who help themselves’
Green on freedom
‘Freedom…is the greatest of blessings’
TH Green on freedom
‘The freedom to starve’
TH Green on the state
- By protecting individuals from the social evils that cripple their lives
- an ENABLING STATE can expand freedom by providing economic and social responsibilities
Locke’s theory of government
Social contract theory
Locke on human nature
‘By nature, all free, equal, and independent’
Berlin on freedom
‘Positive freedom’ vs. ‘Negative freedom’
Montesquieu on the state
‘Power should be a check to power’
Keynes on laissez-faire
- leads to ‘economic anarchy’
Wollstonecraft on rationalism
‘The mind has no gender’
Locke on the state
‘The end of the law is … to preserve and enlarge freedom’
Locke on the state
‘Where there is no law, there is no freedom’
Locke on the economy
‘Preservation of property’
Popper on Tolerance
‘Paradox of tolerance’ - if we tolerate intolerant views, society becomes less tolerant overall
Wollstonecraft on equality
‘Virtue can only flourish among equals’
