#2,943

There exist two interpretations of the popular vote, one democratic, the other liberal.
According to the democratic interpretation what the majority resolves upon is true; according to the liberal interpretation the majority merely chooses one option.
A dogmatic and absolutist interpretation, the one; a skeptical and discreet interpretation, the other.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 470

#2,681

They started out calling liberal institutions democratic, and they ended up calling democratic despotisms liberal.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 432

#2,609

The liberal is always mistaken because he does not distinguish between the consequences he attributes to his intentions and the consequences his intentions effectively include.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 422

#2,334

Capitalism is the monstrous distortion of private property by liberal democracy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 378

#2,219

Either man has rights, or the people is sovereign.
The simultaneous assertion of two mutually exclusive theses is what people have called liberalism.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 360

#1,976

Liberalism proclaims the right of the individual to degrade oneself, provided one’s degradation does not impede the degradation of one’s neighbor.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 322

#1,925

The absolutist wishes for a sovereign force that will subdue all others, the liberal a multitude of weak forces that will neutralize each other.
But the axiological commandment decrees hierarchies of multiple vigorous and active forces.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 314

#1,896

Liberal ideas are likeable.
Their consequences ruinous.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 310

#1,828

Without a hierarchical structure it is not possible to transform freedom from a fable into a fact.
The liberal always discovers too late that the price of equality is the omnipotent state.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 300

#1,470

Modern liberalism no longer defends any of the “rights of man” except the right to consume.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 248

#1,208

Today’s conservatives are nothing more than liberals who have been ill-treated by democracy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 211

#1,066

Liberalism has not fought for the freedom, but for the irresponsibility, of the press.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 189

#1,014

To find oneself at the mercy of the people’s whims, thanks to universal suffrage, is what liberalism calls the guarantee of freedom.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 182

#979

Tolerance consists of a firm decision to allow them to insult everything we seek to love and respect, as long as they do not threaten our material comforts.
Modern, liberal, democratic, progressive man, as long as they do not step on his calluses, will let them degrade his soul.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 176

#462

A man is called a liberal if he does not understand that he is sacrificing liberty except when it is too late to save it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 91

#329

Liberal parties never understand that the opposite of despotism is not stupidity, but authority.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 71