Accepting Quote by Friedrich August von Hayek

Conservatives tend to be very skeptical of change. When something could be improved, they often get in the way of those improvements because they…

— Bret Weinstein

Conservatives are wary of change. We have respect for things that have lasted a long time and have been proved to work. When things…

— Michael Portillo

Conservatives hold on to things not only because they are attached to them, but also because they do not see the sense in radical…

— Roger Scruton

Conservatives want smaller government. They want to focus on market-based solutions wherever one can. They want to have as little regulation as possible. But…

— Norman Ornstein

Conservatives try to adjust their behavior to fit the facts of nature. Liberals try to adjust the facts of nature to fit their behavior.

— Frank Turek

“Conservatives are the “party of order and stability,” in Mill’s formulation. They generally resist the changes implemented by the “party of progress or reform.”…

— Jonathan Haidt

The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he knows that…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

— Ariel Durant

There is perhaps no single factor contributing so much to people's frequent reluctance to let the market work as their inability to conceive how…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

If one's desire for change is an earnest desire to see things improve, then surely there is a state in which things have been…

— Bret Weinstein

As a reformer the liberal is dissatisfied with things as they are because they violate his exceptionally tender conscience… Liberalism does not advocate change…

— Ralph Barton Perry

Some conservatives are traditionalists, and the idea of breaking things up and changing things is concerning to them at times.

— Matt Schlapp