Axioms Quote by John Carroll

Stirner's political praxis is quixotic. It accepts the established hierarchies of constraint as given. ... Not liable to any radical change, they constitute part…

— John Carroll

[Marx] explicates ideology as socially determined, [Stirner] as psychologically determined: both accuse it of remaining oblivious to its own determinations.

— John Carroll

The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.

— Franz von Papen

“By destroying traditional social habits of the people, by dissolving their natural collective consciousness into individual constituents, by licensing the opinions of the most…

— T.S. Eliot

Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.

— Kate Braverman

“There are six canons of conservative thought: 1) Belief in a transcendent order, or body of natural law, which rules society as well as…

— Russell Kirk

The Left likes to think of itself as the bulwark of progressive liberal individualism, and yet it seeks to progressively coerce others to fund…

— Dave Brat

Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us…

— Anonymous

Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies it is…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Unlike liberalism, with its fundamental belief in the long-range power of ideas, conservatism is bound by the stock of ideas inherited at a given…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

... liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in positions of…

— Susan Sontag