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Top 10 Patrick J. Deneen Quotes (2025 Update)

Patrick J. Deneen Quote: “Among the greatest challenges facing humanity is the ability to survive progress.”

1. “Among the greatest challenges facing humanity is the ability to survive progress.”

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Patrick J. Deneen Quote: “As commended by ancient and religious traditions alike, liberty is not liberation from constraint but rather our capacity to govern appetite and thus achieve a truer form of liberty – liberty from enslavement to our appetites and avoidance of depletion of the world. In short, needful is the rescue of liberal education from liberalism.”

2. “As commended by ancient and religious traditions alike, liberty is not liberation from constraint but rather our capacity to govern appetite and thus achieve a truer form of liberty – liberty from enslavement to our appetites and avoidance of depletion of the world. In short, needful is the rescue of liberal education from liberalism.”

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Patrick J. Deneen Quote: “To be free, above all, was to be free from enslavement to one’s own basest desires, which could never be fulfilled, and the pursuit of which could only foster ceaseless craving and discontent.”

3. “To be free, above all, was to be free from enslavement to one’s own basest desires, which could never be fulfilled, and the pursuit of which could only foster ceaseless craving and discontent.”

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Patrick J. Deneen Quote: “Elections provide the appearance of self-governance but mainly function to satiate any residual civic impulse before we return to our lives as employees and consumers.”

4. “Elections provide the appearance of self-governance but mainly function to satiate any residual civic impulse before we return to our lives as employees and consumers.”

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Patrick J. Deneen Quote: “This is liberalism’s most fundamental wager: the replacement of one unequal and unjust system with another system enshrining inequality that would be achieved not by oppression and violence but with the population’s full acquiescence, premised on the ongoing delivery of increasing material prosperity along with the theoretical possibility of class mobility.”

5. “This is liberalism’s most fundamental wager: the replacement of one unequal and unjust system with another system enshrining inequality that would be achieved not by oppression and violence but with the population’s full acquiescence, premised on the ongoing delivery of increasing material prosperity along with the theoretical possibility of class mobility.”

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Patrick J. Deneen Quote: “Preserved in discrete human inheritances – arts, literature, music, architecture, history, law, religion – culture expands the human experience of time, making both the past and the future present to creatures who otherwise experience only the present moment.”

6. “Preserved in discrete human inheritances – arts, literature, music, architecture, history, law, religion – culture expands the human experience of time, making both the past and the future present to creatures who otherwise experience only the present moment.”

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Patrick J. Deneen Quote: “We are, he argues, becoming more shallow, not simply in a superficial way, but physiologically. The internet is making us dumber.2.”

7. “We are, he argues, becoming more shallow, not simply in a superficial way, but physiologically. The internet is making us dumber.2.”

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Patrick J. Deneen Quote: “The “noble lie” proposes a story by which the denizens of the “ideal regime” proposed by Socrates at once believe in their fundamental equality as members of a common family and in the natural basis of their inequality.”

8. “The “noble lie” proposes a story by which the denizens of the “ideal regime” proposed by Socrates at once believe in their fundamental equality as members of a common family and in the natural basis of their inequality.”

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Patrick J. Deneen Quote: “Our main political choices come down to which depersonalized mechanism will purportedly advance our freedom and security – the space of the market, which collects our billions upon billions of choices to provide for our wants and needs without demanding from us any specific thought or intention about the wants and needs of others; or the liberal state, which establishes depersonalized procedures and mechanisms for the wants and needs of others that remain insufficiently addressed by the market.”

9. “Our main political choices come down to which depersonalized mechanism will purportedly advance our freedom and security – the space of the market, which collects our billions upon billions of choices to provide for our wants and needs without demanding from us any specific thought or intention about the wants and needs of others; or the liberal state, which establishes depersonalized procedures and mechanisms for the wants and needs of others that remain insufficiently addressed by the market.”

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Patrick J. Deneen Quote: “The skills of building, fixing, cooking, planting, preserving, and composting not only undergird the indepen-dence and integrity of the home but develop practices and skills that are the basic sources of culture and a shared civic life. They teach each generation the demands, gifts, and limits of nature; human participation in and celebration of natural rhythms and patterns; and independence from the culture-destroying ignorance and laziness induced by the ersatz freedom of the modern market.”

10. “The skills of building, fixing, cooking, planting, preserving, and composting not only undergird the indepen-dence and integrity of the home but develop practices and skills that are the basic sources of culture and a shared civic life. They teach each generation the demands, gifts, and limits of nature; human participation in and celebration of natural rhythms and patterns; and independence from the culture-destroying ignorance and laziness induced by the ersatz freedom of the modern market.”

— Patrick J. Deneen

Patrick J. Deneen Quote: “What is conventionally called a populist revolution is better described as a global antimanagerial revolution.”

11. “What is conventionally called a populist revolution is better described as a global antimanagerial revolution.”

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Patrick J. Deneen Quote: “To be free – liberal – was an art, something learned not by nature or instinct but by refinement and education. And the soul of the liberal arts was the humanities, education in how to be a human being.”

12. “To be free – liberal – was an art, something learned not by nature or instinct but by refinement and education. And the soul of the liberal arts was the humanities, education in how to be a human being.”

— Patrick J. Deneen

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