Conservative Quote by Edward Abbey Download Open image “The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee- pad conservative…” — Edward Abbey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conservative Jerk Knee jerk reactions Knees Pads
Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The only thing worse than an oppressed liberal is the Rino Republican who sympathizes with them. — Josh Bernstein Copy Share Image
A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I don't mind being called a liberal. I just don't really think it's true. — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are. — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand. — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
The same liberals who want to protect the constitutional right of people like Colin Kaepernick to symbolically reject America by taking a knee were… — Jeanine Pirro Copy Share Image
In practice, conservatives are no less inclined than liberals to adopt superior stances or to tell people how to live their lives. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon. — Gregory Nunn Copy Share Image
A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role. — Kim Campbell Copy Share Image
Play small ball. Get back to basics. I would say that you need to be a conservative, but you need to maintain your independent… — Andrea Tantaros Copy Share Image
I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What… — Wayne Wonder Copy Share Image
In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an erotomania only… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
I would say I'm a fiscal conservative and a social liberal, if that contradiction can make sense, because in Bolivia, we have a great… — Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada Copy Share Image
My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commercial world. He looked down on pop… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
To all conservative women out there: If you are so sure the embryo needed for stem cell research are precious human life that can't… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
“Those who consider themselves ‘Conservative’ frequently identify with family values, so they should consider carefully the fact that in 1960, only 18% of women… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
