Argument Quote by Alasdair MacIntyre

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“In a struggle against a revolutionary idea it is only possible to use ideological elements which are a thousand times more radical, or adopt…

— Francis Stuart Campbell

The oldest philosophy in the world is conservatism, and I go clear back to the first Greeks. ... When you say 'radical right' today,…

— Barry Goldwater

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

— Edmond de Goncourt

The radical ideas of one generation have become the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of…

— Peter Dreier

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded,…

— Powell Clayton

The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history,…

— Anonymous

At the turn of the last century, extremists were forced back to the political fringes while younger politicians resurrected the vitality of the original…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of…

— Herbert Spencer

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative…

— Mark Twain

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

— Ariel Durant

When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new…

— Karl Marx