There are only two great currents in the history of…

“Conservatives are the “party of order and stability,” in Mill’s formulation. They generally resist the changes implemented by the “party of progress or reform.”…

— Jonathan Haidt

Revolutionaries themselves are the last people to realize when, through force of time and circumstance, they have gradually become conservatives. It is scarcely to…

— Constant Lambert

Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.

— Italo Calvino

Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed.…

— John Walford

When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.

— Roger Chamberlain

There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty,…

— H. G. Wells

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

— Leonardo da Vinci

How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and…

— Blaise Pascal

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir,…

— William Shakespeare

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

— Milan Kundera

O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and gained their…

— Al-Maʿarri