Conservative Quotes

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It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards;… — Tom Robbins
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain. — Winston Churchill
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve… — Benjamin Disraeli
I knew he was unreliable, but he was fun to be with. He was a childâ€™s ideal companion, full of surprises and happy animal energy.… — E L Doctorow
How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth? — Christopher Hitchens
Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government. — George Monbiot
Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated… — Bell Hooks
I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring. — Pat Conroy
Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing narrow about the… — Mark Levin
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. — Thomas Sowell
And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women - except, of course â€”those who… — Tina Fey
When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal. — Garrison Keillor
Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. The spread… — Jared Diamond
Confucius is like the Torah, rules to follow. And Lao-Tzu is even more conservative, saying that if you do nothing you won't break any rules.… — Christopher Moore
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians. — George Orwell
Human beings tend to be conservative, so if you lie, you'll probably be closer to the truth. — Sonya Sones
I so rarely have the chance to field-test anything. Amelie is so conservative about these things -Myrnin — Rachel Caine
Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is… — Frank Herbert
Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it. — John Stott
For the authentic revolutionary conservative, what really counts is to be faithful not to past forms and institutions, but rather to principles of which such… — Julius Evola

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