The Liberal Mind Quotes

“Ultimately, as Hayek observed, choices in favor of interventionist government put society on the road to serfdom.”
― Lyle H. Rossiter Jr., The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness

“A society dedicated to freedom and order places a premium on learning to choose responsibly. Collectivist social policy, by contrast, preempts individual choice with countless regulations and prohibitions, then rewards incompetence through its standing invitation to dependency upon an indulgent and overprotective parental government.”
― Lyle H. Rossiter Jr., The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness

“it is worth emphasizing again that the destructiveness of governments grows out of the extraordinary concentration of power that develops whenever they are formed. This is true whether that power is seized by conquest and held by tyranny, or authorized by the voluntary but misguided trust of people who, out of ignorance, cede undue authority to others on the illusions of an invalid social contract.”
― Lyle H. Rossiter Jr., The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness

“Instead of promoting a rational society of competent adults who solve the problems of living through voluntary cooperation, the modern liberal agenda creates an irrational society of child-like adults who depend upon governments to take care of them. In its ongoing efforts to collectivize society’s basic economic, social and political processes, the liberal agenda undermines the character traits essential for individual liberty, material security, voluntary cooperation and social order.”
― Lyle H. Rossiter Jr., The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness

“In international politics”
― Lyle H. Rossiter Jr., The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness

“We have, in effect, parentified our governments in the belief that we will be better off if they take care of us than if we take care of ourselves.”
― Lyle H. Rossiter Jr., The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness