Conservatism Quote by Jonathan Haidt

“Conservatism aims to maintain in working order the loyalties of the community to perceived truths and also to those truths which in their judgment…

— William F. Buckley Jr

“[Conservatism is] a fight for keeping these qualities that made us move unceasingly.”

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

“All political ideals, that of making the people happy is perhaps the most dangerous one. It leads invariably to the attempt to impose our…

— Karl R. Popper

“It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“Conservatism is the negation of Ideology.”

— H. Stuart Hughes

“Conservatism, then, is not a commitment to limited government and liberty—or a wariness of change, a belief in evolutionary reform, or a politics of…

— Corey Robin

Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken,…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

“What is the greatest benefit in the world? The association with good people. Those who are considered somewhat worthy of reverence by society.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“There is no conservatism that will stand out against self-interest.”

— Homer B. Hulbert

The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of the inner…

— Russell Kirk

“And if happiness were common, it would preserve itself, because appeals to hatred and fear, which now constitute almost the whole of politics would…

— Bertrand Russell

What drew me to conservatism years ago was the fact that it gave discipline a slightly higher status than virtue. This meant it could…

— Shelby Steele