Conservatism Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the…

— Leonard Peikoff

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

— Joseph Addison

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

— John Galsworthy

There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. ... in the…

— John Maynard Keynes

It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.

— Bertrand Russell

“The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth.…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

— Errico Malatesta

“For men to plunge headlong into an undertaking of vast change, they must be intensely discontented yet not destitute, and they must have the…

— Eric Hoffer

“Man's inability to understand and appreciate the thought and viewpoint of another man would be a stumbling block which no amount of mechanical ability…

— Clifford D. Simak

“...we cannot fail to recognise the influence which the progressive control over natural forces exerts on the social relationships between men, since men always…

— Sigmund Freud