Conservatism Quote by George Orwell

“Conservatism is far from what I’m aiming at in proclaiming the establishment of a Sethian left-hand path tradition in the West as one of…

— Zeena Schreck

Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the…

— Horace Mann

By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of…

— George Orwell

“It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express…

— Glenn Greenwald

Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about…

— Jill Lepore

Conservatism is the worship of dead revolutions.

— Clinton Rossiter

“At the time, he told his children to watch themselves, to understand that the tides of conservatism came and went and if they could…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

— Lord Acton

Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off…

— Joe Wurzelbacher

Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of…

— Herbert Spencer

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

— Brian Eno

Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.

— Cate Blanchett