Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Conservatism's vulnerability is simply that it has no way to extract power from the evils America owned up to in the '60s… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,--the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The appeal of conservatism is the mutuality it asserts between individual and political freedom, its beautiful idea of a free man in… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I didn't become a Tory just to become part of a managerial group who wanted to run the country... I want to… — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and... an eagerness to know what it is really all about, in order that… — Elizabeth Kenny Copy Share Image
“The irony is that when you set out to remove bias you use your own possibly unconscious biases in deciding what's harmful… — James Rickards Copy Share Image
“Liberals are more likely to see people as victims of circumstance and oppression, and doubt whether individuals can climb without governmental help.… — Arthur C. Brooks Copy Share Image
“I began to wonder what, exactly, mainstream conservatism was conserving. It dawned on me that some of the causes championed by my… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
Fox News has effectively become the establishment. Fox has - you know, during non-election years, really tended to out flank the Republican… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system... simplicity, plausibility, and conservatism… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
“Pundits and politicians have rightly questioned whether conservatism can successfully appeal to secular Americans. It is not a certainty, however, that conservatism… — George Hawley Copy Share Image
Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds -- some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
For neo-conservatism is a quintessentially Jewish project: a re-sanctification in everyday life of the core values of western civilisation, and the achievement… — Melanie Phillips Copy Share Image
Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a symptom, not a disease. The disease is the death of real political conservatism: a cool, intelligent reluctance to… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Modern conservatism was forged in the crucible of the 1970s inflation crisis, and in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash many… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I think the most basic difference between Liberalism and Conservatism today, at its core, is that Conservatives just seem to want a… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
I call my philosophy and approach compassionate conservatism. It is compassionate to actively help our fellow citizens in need. It is conservative… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
How can the public choose sides, when one side has nothing left to surrender? Not until the right is prepared to lose… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
Dog whistles about women who want handouts are simply an acceptable way to say that women are not worth as much as… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
I think, when you see kind of dysfunction among the Democrats of the Republicans, it impacts the whole country: the way we… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is "Prove all things and hold fast that which is… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
So, it's important for us to acknowledge that we're prone to be conservative, and in turn surround ourselves with individuals who will… — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people forget my record of fiscal conservatism on major issues in the state legislature. The greatest example is my voting against… — Leonard Lance Copy Share Image
No matter how I'm doing financially, the Depression has never disappeared from my consciousness. To this day, I hate waste. When neckties… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
What I have been talking about for many years is opportunity conservatism, that every policy should focus like a laser on easing… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
For nearly a decade Democrats have sought a religious wedge issue that could separate big chunks of white evangelical voters from their… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
“By the eighteenth century many were showing all the negative conservatism of a vested interest overtaken by events: dogged devotion to old… — Timothy C.W. Blanning Copy Share Image
I'm not poor now, but unlike some of my friends who are now rich, I haven't embraced conservatism and religion. I'm not… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
What I often forget about students, especially undergraduates, is that surface appearances are misleading. Most of them are at base as conventional… — Muriel Beadle Copy Share Image
