I think one of the fundamental divides between progressivism and conservatism is conceit versus humility. — Will Cain Copy Share Image
Republicans can win if they adopt a message and promote policies of conscientious conservatism where they lay out a vision of how… — Mercedes Schlapp Copy Share Image
Conservatism has never been about fear or about anger. Not at its best. Do people have a right to be fearful of… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“He is in many ways quite a right-wing isolationist. It's because some people are naïve enough to confuse this with anti-imperialism that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Populism is not conservatism, which by definition entails resistance to public whims. Conservatives who seek to use populism for their own ends… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror… — Charles Hazlewood 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
“You say you are conservative—eminently conservative—while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
“above all, intellectual. Anti-intellectualism is one of the grand unifying themes of the backlash, the mutant strain of class war that underpins… — Thomas Frank 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
“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
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
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
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
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
Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the… — Herbert Spencer 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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:] Our revolutionary message... is that a self-disciplined people can create a political community in which an ordered liberty will promote both… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
If you accept that conservatism equals constitutionalism - and I do - well, then, where do we start? We do we start… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency,… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
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