A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal cell having a liquid crystal layer provided between two glass substrates having a thickness of 0.5 mm or less, polarization plates provided on both surfaces of the liquid crystal cell in which absorption axes of the polarization plates provided on both surfaces of the liquid crystal cell are disposed to be orthogonal with each other, and a back light provided on a rear side of the liquid crystal cell, and a difference (D−H) between a contractive force D in an absorption axis direction of the front side polarization plate, and a contractive force H in a transmission axis direction of the rear side polarization plate is 365×10 N/m or less.