Quotes About Conservative

Religions are immune to change and the old ideologies remain the same throughout the age.

The disciples wanted a kingdom without a cross. Many would-be "orthodox" or "conservative" Christians in our world have wanted a cross without a kingdom, an abstract "atonement" that would have nothing to do with this world except to provide the means of escaping it.

Conservative churches have spoken of miracles, in the sense of a god normally outside suddenly reaching in, doing something dramatic, and then going away again.

The press would indeed take the "conservative" position. A New York Times reporter put it this way: "The Academy found that since there is no politically or economically realistic way of heading off the greenhouse effect, strategies must be prepared to adapt to a 'high temperature world.'"50 But the Academy hadn't found that; the committee had asserted it. And it wasn't the Academy; it was Bill Nierenberg and a handful of economists.

Beneath Ba's bravado, he was a conservative man. He did not lack courage. Neither was he a professional risk-taker like Vann. He had been an officer in a colonial army that had lost its war. He was fighting this second war for the Tory regime of his class. He was doing precisely what could be expected of a man who had grown up in a system where, when in doubt, the best thing to do was to do nothing. He was stalling.

Repeated psychology experiments have shown that fear makes us more conservative in our political beliefs, and Richard Nixon seized upon the fears in 1968 when he ran for president with coded dog whistles playing on white apprehensions of black unrest.

Almost every word in the paper followed the conservative line, and you wouldn't have been surprised to read in the horoscope that 'A full moon in July will mean that Geminis will be mugged by the feral children of a heroin-addled single mother.

No matter what the political environment, blasphemy laws lend the power of the state to particular religious authorities and effectively reinforce extreme views, since the most conservative or hard-line elements in a religious community are generally the quickest to take offence and the first to claim the mantle of orthodoxy. Virtually any act has the potential to draw an accusation and prosecution

reactionary

Nothing is more conservative than a bacterium.

Reactionaries are recruited from among the front-row spectators of a revolution.

Die moderne Literatur: dieses kolossale reaktionäre Unterfangen.

To be a revolutionary one must be a little daft; to be a conservative, a little cynical.

Sensible. Conservative and sensible and mature and *wrong*. Very much in character with Joanne.

The faithfulness principle (of the conservative) and the flexibility principle (of the liberal) are two sides of the same coin. They are both necessary if Christians are to follow their instructions and remain simultaneously "in" the world but not "of" it.

Nunca una clase conservadora, por simple odio a quien no la trituraba pudiendo hacerlo, ansió tanto la caída de un hombre».

If you exclude the people from participation, marginalize them, threaten their identity and nationhood, you will inevitably get sabotage and a conservative response.

That the city would return to being the thriving white suburb of his youth. Cars with tail fins. Straw hats and sock hops. Episcopalians and ice cream socials. It would be the opposite of white flight, he said. "The Ku Klux influx." But when I'd ask him how, he'd just shrug and, like a conservative senator without any ideas, filibuster me with unrelated stories about the good ol' days.

Winston Churchill: "Si no eres un liberal a los veinte, es que no tienes corazón; si no eres conservador a los cuarenta, no tienes cerebro".

Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.

The conservative heretics were like all the others here in Dis: though they claimed to champion truth, in reality they loved something else more than truth—in this case, the comfort of their own smugness. It was a subtle form of idolatry, but idolatry nonetheless. Fancy that: feuding theological cousins—liberals and conservatives—the spitting image of each other, bedded down now side by side in flaming poetic justice.

There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.

To Trump, talking with Murdoch was more important than just about anything. No one played a more central role in Trump's media world than the Australian-born impresario of conservative journalism who owned Fox News, Fox Business, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, and other

the modern age the definition of a "racist" is a conservative who is winning an argument.