“Companies made money and were beholden to stockholders; it was understandable if they tried to “cover their ass,” people told me. But… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
The old-school GOP that championed limited government, fiscal restraint, and the defense of the ideals of democracy at home and abroad was… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
As social values shifted through the '80s and '90s, as modern conservatism rose to power, and as the electorate became a good… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
A medicine that makes you feel more real, Closer to your mind, Closer to the ground, Understand what's around, Feel the sound,… — Nathan Schwake Copy Share Image
Conservatism has always meant more to me than simply sticking up for private property & free enterprise. It has also meant defending… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Conservative ideas are alive and dynamic, the result of a free and intellectually honest vision for the country. As long as conservatism… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In the broader American culture - the mainstream media, the world of the arts and entertainment, the high-tech world, and the entire… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have… — William F. Buckley, Jr 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“When Republicans recently charged the President with promoting 'class warfare,' he answered it was 'just math.' But it's more than math. It's… — Robert B. Reich Copy Share Image
“Social conservatism and neoconservatism have revived authoritarian conservatism, and not for the better of conservatism or American democracy. True conservatism is cautious… — John W. Dean 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
“All this careful conservatism, these shackled environments that barely edged beyond the laws of physics—they only guarded against the Inner Heckler, not… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“Conservatism aims to maintain in working order the loyalties of the community to perceived truths and also to those truths which in… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
“Global environmentalists have said and written enough to leave no doubt that their goal is to destroy the prosperous economies of the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent,… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with… — Richard T. Ely Copy Share Image
Conservative feminism is such an artificial term that doesn't mean much to me. For me conservatism means accepting reality. I acknowledge that… — Kristina Schroder Copy Share Image
It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Muller asserted that modern conservatism is really about creating the best possible society, the one that brings about the greatest happiness given… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I get if you're a conservative, and you're saying, I don't know, 'Government shouldn't be mandating what's taught in classrooms,' or, 'Government… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
To be conservative…is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
I would say I am very much more interested in ethics than in code/ morality. I think it's in this way that… — Richard Marshall Copy Share Image
I know that with most companies that have a lot of success, it tends to throw you off, and you can become… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
Not my political ideas. Conservatism didn’t buy this house. First and foremost I’m a businessman. My first goal is to attract the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
In certain quarters, conservatism is simply racism by another name. And minorities who openly identify themselves as conservatives are still novelties, fish… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I put my conservatism up against anyone. I'm a pretty staunch conservative, with pretty rabid ideas about conservative values... Questioning my conservatism… — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
"Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“Modern formulations are necessary even in defense of very ancient truths. Not because of any alleged anachronism in the old ideas –… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
I think that for social conservatism to make sense as a political world view, it has to have a more capacious understanding… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable,… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
