Analysis Quote by Juliana Spahr

The revolt of the poet is invariably conservative at its roots. … Not politically conservative, but imaginatively conservative, with a profound regard for what…

— Cid Corman

I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.

— Gertrude Stein

All poetry is political, to some degree.

— Mike Young

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a…

— Walter Lippmann

People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George…

— Sharron Angle

In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other…

— Camille Paglia

A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is…

— Leo Strauss

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

— Rick Perlstein

To be conservative…is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the…

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have…

— Anonymous

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

To me, conservative means believing in a minimum amount of government and a maximum amount of freedom - and keeping government out of people's…

— Lyn Nofziger