Conservatism Quotes · Page 5

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.

— Anonymous

Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

— Romola Garai

“Conservatism is the cousin of cowardice.”

— J.R. Ward

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

— Mark Levin

Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As someone who has spent much of my life identifying as a conservative, I can't stand what American conservatism has become.

— Max Boot

At its core, conservatism is not an anti-government movement, and it's not a no-government movement.

— Marco Rubio

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

— Robertson Davies

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

— Tom Stoppard

I'm excited to bring a dose of moderate, rational conservatism to 'The Cycle.'

— Abby Huntsman

Conserving the individual is the basis of conservatism. It is classical, de Tocqueville liberalism.

— Dana Loesch

Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought…

— Herman Melville

In the end the recrudescence of racism on the right is conservatism's problem to solve, and it has to be solved independently…

— Ross Douthat

There has been an unspoken assumption among establishment Republicans that all they have to do is wait out Hurricane Trump and then…

— Max Boot

One of the most important things liberals don't understand about conservatism, obscured by too much lazy talk about conservatism's various 'wings,' is…

— Rick Perlstein

The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a…

— Henry A. Kissinger

There's a religious basis to their [Bush and Chaney] kind of conservatism. It's rooted in a kind of fundamentalism. I'm afraid of…

— Sydney Pollack

“It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

American conservatism always has been plagued by an irrational distaste for homosexuality, a robust and righteous hate for the sin that cannot…

— Norah Vincent

I think there's a growing amount of confusion about what conservatism is. And it is time for us to understand that conservatism…

— Marco Rubio

At a recent conference, a colleague told one of us that in IPCC discussions, some scientists have been reluctant to make strong…

— Naomi Oreskes

f you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer…

— Ronald Reagan

Indeed, while Nature is wonderfully inventive of new structures, her conservatism in holding on to old ones is still more remarkable. In…

— John M. Tyler

We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will…

— Warren Buffett

This is the ultimate war of ideas. You're trying to get somebody to change their mind about conservatism, because that's exactly what…

— Immortal Technique

“[F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection…

— Gideon Haigh

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

— Lord Acton

All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense…

— Suzanne La Follette

People want results. I call it 'results oriented conservatism,' R.O.C. because that's what people want out of government.

— Bob McDonnell

I get grumpy about the innate conservatism of our tastes; I love bold theatre, and I get annoyed when a heritage piece…

— Romola Garai

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

— Frank Popoff

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

— Mike Rosen

I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. .

— Chris Matthews

“Most people simply aren’t unhappy enough with the known to trade it for the unknown”

— Joan D. Vinge

Conservatism as an "ism" is always going to be somewhat in tension with a political party.

— William Kristol

Conservatism is all about surfaces and labels and presentation, and drag says no, we refuse to follow any rules about that.

— Sasha Velour

The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.

— E. L. Doctorow

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

— Rick Perlstein

I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.

— Laurie Simmons