Anticipate Quote by Carolyn Heilbrun

Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.

— Italo Calvino

...the differences between the conservative and the radical seem to spring mainly from their attitude toward the future. Fear of the future causes us…

— Eric Hoffer

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

— George Orwell

The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.

— Craig Shirley

Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is…

— George Orwell

The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.

— Peter Kropotkin

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

— Elon Musk

The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a…

— Russell Kirk

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

— Hannah Arendt

Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded,…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

— Christopher Lasch