Conservatism Quotes · Page 7

To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.

— Richard Hofstadter

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

— Christopher Lasch

American Conservatism is finished, and its remaining adherents are, whether they know it or not, merely ghosts wandering, mazed, in the daylight.

— Revilo P. Oliver

“He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most…

— G.K. Chesterton

The genteel conservatism of 'Downton Abbey' is not a rigid, extremist ideology whose adherents are bent on power at all costs.

— Max Boot

RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

— Ambrose Bierce

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The essence of Conservatism is fear: fear of what is not understood, fear of change, fear of the new, fear of what's…

— Gene Pozniak

In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world,…

— Criss Jami

Sometimes, people forget my record of fiscal conservatism on major issues in the state legislature. The greatest example is my voting against…

— Leonard Lance

“Middle-status conservatism reflects the anxiety experienced by one who aspires to a social station but fears disenfranchisement.” The fall from low to…

— Adam M. Grant

We have to sell conservatism to non-conservatives. We have to take our principles and apply them to problems and go sell them…

— Paul Ryan

What I often forget about students, especially undergraduates, is that surface appearances are misleading. Most of them are at base as conventional…

— Muriel Beadle

The middle classes shouldn’t be getting tax cuts, while those in tough, poorly paid jobs, who are already running out of money…

— Tim Montgomerie

American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections…

— Thomas Frank

The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into…

— Vladimir Putin

Disraeli was now at the height of his fame and popularity. He still had his enemies... But the people as a whole…

— Christopher Hibbert

“It is natural to care for those who have cared for us, but at the point a man has been dead a…

— Joshua Gibbs

“A favorite liberal taunt is to accuse conservatives of clinging to an idealized past. Poor, right-wing Americans vaguely sense the world is…

— Ann Coulter

I don't understand how the Republican party is the party with the reputation for fiscal conservatism and fiscal sanity, when they're the…

— Bill Maher

“Stop telling me I’m oppressed…I’m not a victim. I don’t know why feminists are so hellbent on characterizing me as one…Feminists don’t…

— Hannah Bleau

William Graebner's brilliant analysis of America's struggles over the meaning of Patty Hearst gives us not only new perspectives on the 1970s,…

— Beth Bailey

The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions… We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping…

— Barry Goldwater

Our leaders ranged from bad to extraordinary. But through it all, the GOP was the one party even vaguely amenable to limited-government…

— Rick Wilson

I think that conservatism as we understand it is coming under great strain during the era of Trump.

— Matthew Continetti

2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of…

— Carly Fiorina

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

— Elbert Hubbard

My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative…

— Jane Smiley

Compassionate conservatism [is] most importantly, making sure that government is not the answer to people's problems.

— George W. Bush

What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

— Theodore Roosevelt

In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Unfortunately, a lot of liberals seem to choose what policies to support based on whether they make them feel nice or mean,…

— John Hawkins

I think one of the fundamental divides between progressivism and conservatism is conceit versus humility.

— Will Cain

“Before you take anything away you must have something better to put in its place.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Ted Cruz just in a different league. He understands conservatism because he is.

— Rush Limbaugh

The [Sarah ]Palin endorsement as sort of vouching for Donald Trump is all about. She is the sort of tribune of not…

— Chris Hayes

The enemy isn't conservatism. The enemy isn't liberalism. The enemy is bulls**t.

— Lars-Erik Nelson

In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.

— Eric Hoffer

The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces…

— Tony Blair