Conservatives Quote by John W. Dean Download Open image ““Conservatives seek the wisdom of the past, not the worst of it,”” — John W. Dean ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conservatives Conservatives Seek Europe Seek Wisdom Time Wisdom Wisdom Past
“Even the wisdom of the wisest depends on the accumulated wisdom of the past!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“And the past, for those foolish enough to subscribe to it, holds a grudge harder than anything known to man.” — Jobie Hughes Copy Share Image
For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past. — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Wisdom accumulates in the cracks of personal experience and the crevices of bad judgments.” — Will Craig, Living the Hero's Journey Copy Share Image
“He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
“I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much more wisdom that I… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me most. I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The Conservative approach is nothing more or less than an attempt to apply the wisdom and experience and the revealed truths of the past… — Barry M. Goldwater Copy Share Image
“Wisdom increases and is a burden. I know too many people and why I should love them, and the thought that I love them… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
“• They travel in tight circles of likeminded people. • Their thinking is more likely based on what authorities have told them rather than… — John W. Dean Copy Share Image
“Social Dominators—Leaders: • typically men • dominating* • opposes equality* • desirous of personal power* • amoral* • intimidating and bullying • faintly hedonistic… — John W. Dean Copy Share Image
“Conservatives without conscience do not have horns and tails; if they did they would be easier to identify. Many of them can be quite… — John W. Dean Copy Share Image
“But on a more pedestrian level, he found it difficult for most right-wingers to talk about any subject about which they felt strongly without… — John W. Dean Copy Share Image
“American-style despotism is possible only if it has a large and influential base, and that potential exists in the religious right’s active role in… — John W. Dean Copy Share Image
“how have conservatives succeeded in coalescing as a political force? The simple answer is through the power of negative thinking, and specifically, the ability… — John W. Dean Copy Share Image
“Now, on the investigation, you know, the Democratic break-in thing,” Haldeman began, “we’re back to the problem area, because the FBI is not under… — John W. Dean Copy Share Image
“Probably about 20 to 25 percent of the adult American population is so right-wing authoritarian, so scared, so self-righteous, so ill-informed, and so dogmatic… — John W. Dean Copy Share Image
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners… — John W. Dean Copy Share Image
“Research finds that authoritarian aggression is fueled by fear and encouraged by remarkable self-righteousness, which frees aggressive impulses.” — John W. Dean Copy Share Image
“What actually occurred was that the Supreme Court issued its abominable opinion in Dred Scott v. Sanford in 1857, asserting that slaves were neither… — John W. Dean Copy Share Image
“Haldeman, it seemed, lived by Polonius’ advice to his son—“apparel oft proclaims the man.” — John W. Dean Copy Share Image
Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
Forgive me for noting that conservatives seem to believe that the rich will work harder if we give them more, and the poor will… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Most conservatives - by which I mean normal people - have little conception of the aggressive and revolutionary force that confronts them. It is… — Tom Bethell Copy Share Image
“conservatives say consensus is forming around an immigration package that would include several separate bills on border security; a clampdown against the hiring of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Politics is way cool, as long as it’s progressive. Conservatives by nature hate politics and politicians.” — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
After eight years of Obama one thing is clear: Conservatives want a fighter. — Matt Schlapp Copy Share Image
Fellow conservatives, particularly within the Republican Party, typically do a good job arguing against totalitarian, one-size-fits-all approaches to policy. What works for a family… — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again?… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
What we need to recognize, less than 1 percent of the people organized around issues that are already supported by conservatives and liberals, and… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Their problem is not me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves. Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon,… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
