Quotes About Conservatism

I alienated myself from the academic world almost entirely because it's a left-wing world.

For me there is no conservative and liberal party, not one that is pro-economy or pro-workers, not one for the East and one for the West. For me, there is only the one union, the Christian Democratic Union, that is our family.

Around the same time, however, and beaten by the fascists by only a hair, a closely related ideology developed in America that also called for a powerful centralized state. That ideology was, of course, progressivism. The fascists, like the progressives, sought a radical transformation of society that is the very antithesis of classical liberalism or modern American conservatism.

but the first rule of restorations, as he'd taught me earlier on, was that you never did what you couldn't reverse.

occidit miseros crambe repetita magistros Rehashed cabbage is the death of wretched teachers. Juvenal Satires 7.154, criticizing the repetitive dullness of the highly conservative and unimaginative school curriculum

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

The most profound radicalism is often the most profound conservatism.

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

It's not surprising, then, that after conservatism made a comeback following the war and FDR's death, one of its first targets would be the film industry.

The fate of the Right in the late modern age is to destroy what remains of the past in a vain attempt to recover it.

why is there no right-wing Daily Show? And we would glibly, pridefully answer that the conservative movement could not be funny because it was, by nature, authoritarian, prudish, untruthful, and dull.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness... & ... Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. –

Indeed, Brand's thinking has evolved in many ways—from anti- to pronuclear, from environmentalism to conservationism, and from libertarianism to something closer to traditional liberalism.

Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.

All novelty in faith is a sure mark of heresy.

And I implore those who hide behind the high sounding phrase called tradition, to realise that they throw this word around only to mask their unwillingness to change - Mahesh Bhatt

That is the way it is done, the way it has always been done. Frogs have every right to expect it will always be done that way.

The first few years after Samuel came to Salinas Valley there was a vague distrust of him. And perhaps Will as a little boy heard talk in the San Lucas store. Little boys don't want their fathers to be different from other men. Will might have picked up his conservatism right then.

I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing narrow about the conservative philosophy. It's a liberating philosophy. It is a magnificent philosophy. It is a philosophy for the ages, for all times.