Conservatism Quotes

208 Conservatism quotes by 163 unique authors

A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic. — Gough Whitlam
Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man's spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,— in the name… — Barry Goldwater
The oldest philosophy in the world is conservatism, and I go clear back to the first Greeks. ... When you say 'radical right' today, I… — Barry Goldwater
Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks for tremendous anatomical… — Niles Eldredge
Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something. — Jonathan Krohn
I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a… — Jonathan Krohn
I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights. — Jonathan Krohn
In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less… — Jonathan Krohn
The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and... an eagerness to know what it is really all about, in order that he may not… — Elizabeth Kenny
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism. — Lord Acton
Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life… — Morris Raphael Cohen
Conservatism is constitutionally opposed to public reason, and this explains the abandon with which so many conservative pundits embrace flagrant simulations of reason, constructed through… — Philip E. Agre
Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed… — Bill Moyers
RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day. — Ambrose Bierce
The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly… — Robertson Davies
Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future. — Jill Lepore
Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism. — Craig Reucassel
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness… — Eric Gill
Government is the enemy of conservatism and freedom. — Ron Paul
Disraeli was now at the height of his fame and popularity. He still had his enemies... But the people as a whole now admired and… — Christopher Hibbert
To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of dead, human conservatism… — Thomas Merton
The very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. — Ronald Reagan
While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring,… — Daisaku Ikeda
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life… — Aron Ralston

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