Change Quote by Agnes Repplier

The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness…

— Vladimir Putin

Conservatism is the perfect antidote to underdevelopment. Its commitment to individual responsibility, education, hard work, personal initiative, traditional family values and free markets is…

— Shelby Steele

Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.

— Sigmund Freud

“Conservatism, then, is not a commitment to limited government and liberty—or a wariness of change, a belief in evolutionary reform, or a politics of…

— Corey Robin

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

— Ariel Durant

“[Conservatism is] a fight for keeping these qualities that made us move unceasingly.”

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

— Mark Levin

The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried

— Abraham Lincoln

“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

Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

— Thorstein Veblen

“Conservatism aims to maintain in working order the loyalties of the community to perceived truths and also to those truths which in their judgment…

— William F. Buckley Jr