Conservatism Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“Perhaps his taciturnity hid a contempt for the human race which had abandoned the great dreams of his youth and now wallowed in sluggish…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“[...] perhaps these thirty years of revolution had taught him that men are unfit for liberty, and he thought that he had spent his…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to…

— Susanna Clarke

“So many revolutionaries are intellectuals, a class of people whose aspirations tend to run ahead of their capabilities. Just”

— William T. Vollmann

“The superior person cultivates virtue by bringing about revolution within himself.”

— I Ching

“He's spent all his life in good-natured rebellion against the tyranny of the unimportant.”

— Robin Hardy

“There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.”

— John Barth

“The revolution had come too late for him. He was in his midforties when the Civil Rights Act was signed and close to fifty…

— Isabel Wilkerson

“In a way he was lucky. He was a member of a generation that thought it was a good, even joyous, political idea to…

— Grace Paley

“The conservative has little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in…

— Anonymous

“Towards the end of his life he became a Liberal of the type common in the forties and fifties.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He wondered vaguely how many others like here there might be in the younger generation, people who had grown up in the world of…

— George Orwell