Liberalism Quotes

Question 1

Rawls quote on freedom

Answer 1

‘Liberties, if left unrestricted, collide’

Question 2

Locke on freedom

Answer 2

‘Where there is no law, there is no freedom’

Question 3

Kant on individualism

Answer 3

‘Ends in themselves’

Question 4

Rawls on equality

Answer 4

‘Equality of fairness’

Question 5

Harm Principle

Answer 5

Mill

Question 6

What is the difference principle and who said it

Answer 6

• Rawls
• Inequality in society is only acceptable if it helps the least well-off

Question 7

What did Lord Acton say on power

Answer 7

‘Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely’

Question 8

Jefferson’s inalienable rights

Answer 8

‘Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’

Question 9

Smith’s economic idea

Answer 9

The invisible hand - the market regulates itself

Question 10

What did sumner say on equality

Answer 10

‘The drunkard in the gutter is where he ought to be’

Question 11

What did Green promote

Answer 11

• Larger state as a guarantor of rights
• Unrestrained pursuit of profit creates extremes of poverty and wealth - state should tackle this

Question 12

Keynes on the economy

Answer 12

• tax and spend to reflate the economy

Question 13

Mill on individualism/rationalism

Answer 13

‘Over his mind and body, the individual is sovereign’

Question 14

Mill on the despotism of custom

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• despotism of custom crushes self-expression
• need to facilitate ‘experiments in living’

Question 15

Mill on rationalism

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• Marketplace of ideas
• a ‘fact’ must place the rigours of open debate
• majority opinion can be wrong
• advocated from female emancipation

Question 16

Locke’s inalienable rights

Answer 16

‘Life, liberty and property’

Question 17

Paine on the state

Answer 17

‘Necessary evil’

Question 18

Locke on the state

Answer 18

‘Night watchman’

Question 19

Jefferson on the state

Answer 19

‘The government is best which governs the least’

Question 20

Spencer on equality

Answer 20

‘Survival of the fittest’ developed into a social idea

Question 21

Smiles on equality (also self-interest)

Answer 21

‘Heaven helps those who help themselves’

Question 22

Green on freedom

Answer 22

‘Freedom…is the greatest of blessings’

Question 23

TH Green on freedom

Answer 23

‘The freedom to starve’

Question 24

TH Green on the state

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• By protecting individuals from the social evils that cripple their lives
• an ENABLING STATE can expand freedom by providing economic and social responsibilities

Question 25

Locke’s theory of government

Answer 25

Social contract theory

Question 26

Locke on human nature

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‘By nature, all free, equal, and independent’

Question 27

Berlin on freedom

Answer 27

‘Positive freedom’ vs. ‘Negative freedom’

Question 28

Montesquieu on the state

Answer 28

‘Power should be a check to power’

Question 29

Keynes on laissez-faire

Answer 29

• leads to ‘economic anarchy’

Question 30

Wollstonecraft on rationalism

Answer 30

‘The mind has no gender’

Question 31

Locke on the state

Answer 31

‘The end of the law is … to preserve and enlarge freedom’

Question 32

Locke on the state

Answer 32

‘Where there is no law, there is no freedom’

Question 33

Locke on the economy

Answer 33

‘Preservation of property’

Question 34

Popper on Tolerance

Answer 34

‘Paradox of tolerance’ - if we tolerate intolerant views, society becomes less tolerant overall

Question 35

Wollstonecraft on equality

Answer 35

‘Virtue can only flourish among equals’