There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Old Conservatism, at least in its more principled forms, is, as has been aptly said, the ‘other God that failed’ alongside Communism… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
“It is interesting to note that the quantum-mechanical revolution was made by a virtually orphaned generation of scientists. Many members of the… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“Any informed conservative is reluctant to condense profound and intricate intellectual systems to a few pretentious phrases; he prefers to leave that… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
Of course there are different forms of conservatism. I would say just analytically that the Republican Party is more thoroughly conservative and… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education,… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
“None of us can know today if tomorrow morning we will not be counted as part of a group considered outside the… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
A conservative party that reshapes its self-presentation according to the suggestions of the liberal media, of course, may very well get what… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The oldest philosophy in the world is conservatism, and I go clear back to the first Greeks. ... When you say 'radical… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
You can be totally committed to conservative principles - to individual liberty, a market economy, entrepreneurship and lower taxes - and still… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
If you deconstruct the movies that have done well, Pixar-type movies that do incredibly well and make hundreds of millions of dollars,… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
I don't understand if the conservative movement says you can't be gay and conservative, and I'm straight, then I don't think I… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
“But if we get our souls saved, we go to Heaven, and Heaven is for eternity. We’ll never have to worry about… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
Ted Cruz is not the official spokesman for American conservatism. If you want somebody who has been out there, who has offered… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Donald Trump descends in a very powerful way from longstanding tenets of American conservatism, they're just not the movement conservatism we associate… — Sam Tanenhaus Copy Share Image
“We have successful, strong-willed, independent women who stand up for conservative, traditional values. Women are leading this movement because they've been raised… — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is… — George Haven Putnam Copy Share Image
During the sixties, all the risk-type sports were very popular, because everybody was rebelling against their parents, or rebelling against the whole… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
One of the litmus tests for judicial conservatism is the idea of judicial restraint - that courts should give substantial deference to… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
It is a striking example of modern conservatism's emphasis on the moral worth of the individual. ... When I look at the… — Ramesh Ponnuru Copy Share Image
Don't send your kids to Baylor. And don't send your kids to [Texas] A&M... Texas A&M used to be a conservative university.… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
Portman embodies the formula for GOP modernization: a conservatism that unapologetically applies the principle of individual freedom consistently to both fiscal and… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The conservatism is extraordinary to me; just compare the way they dress to the way their parents dress. There are still no… — Tina Barney Copy Share Image
Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism… — Robert Heller Copy Share Image
Drag resists conservatism in the most basic way possible, and also in the most effective way possible, because it's improper when it… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do… — Jonathan Krohn Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“I, on the other hand, interrupt people because my thoughts fly out of my mouth. My handbag's full of rubbish. And I… — Alison Larkin Copy Share Image
Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image