Quotes About Conservative

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

We were Orthodox Jews, but we really didn't deserve it. I mean, bacon - my father said, 'Don't put bacon in the house,' but we had bacon. We didn't keep kosher. And we observed which today would be Conservative Jews. But in those days, we belonged to an Orthodox temple. So we made out we were Orthodox Jews, but we really weren't.

I was quite old school and religious, keeping all my fasts and would prefer to spend my time in temples.

Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.

I never dared to be radical when youngFor fear it would make me conservative when old.

Cultural Imperium' suggesting the idea of cultural hegemony such that what appears to be 'avant garde' and 'radical' is in fact intensely conservative and defined by the forces of economy and commodity trading which have absolutely no bearing on intrinsic value.

For the conservative, human beings come into this world burdened by obligations, and subject to institutions and traditions that contain within them a precious inheritance of wisdom, without which the exercise of freedom is as likely to destroy human rights and entitlements as to enhance them.

The American liberal is certainly not averse to the power of the state, provided it is exerted by liberals, and exerted against conservatives.

What makes a political order legitimate, in the conservative view, is not the free choices that create it, but the free choices that it creates.

Liberals saw political order as issuing from individual liberty; conservatives saw individual liberty as issuing from political order. What makes a political order legitimate, in the conservative view, is not the free choices that create it, but the free choices that it creates.

A reactionary is fixed on the past and wanting to return to it; a conservative wishes to adapt what is best in the past to the changing circumstances of the present.

And so I acquired the consciousness of death and dying, without which the world cannot be loved for what it is. That, in essence, is what it means to be a conservative.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

it also follows that the oppressed can't criticize the powerful. The only remedy, so far as I can see, for what threatens to be a strongly conservative upshot, is to accept an overt double standard: allow a questionable idea to be criticized if it is held by those in a position of power-Christian creationism, for example-hut not if it is held by those whom the powerful oppress-Zuni creationism, for example.

In the United States at this time liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition. For it is the plain fact that nowadays there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation.

Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.

Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition.

in Russia, roads are nearly all of the unmade, natural kind, and are so conservative in their nature that they have at the present day precisely the same appearance as they had many centuries ago.

Younger white Southerners are more republican not because they are more conservative but because their attachments formed during a period when Republicans were more likely to be regarded as an attractive social group

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

They] may have for instance taken the view of Edmund Burke, who in the 18th century made the central conservative insight; that a culture and a society are not things run for the convenience of the people who happen to be here right now, but is a deep pact between the dead, the living, and those yet to be born.