Skip to content

Conservatism Quote by Mark Twain

“When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing…” quote by Mark Twain — Download Open image

“When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings)

Conservatism Death Human race Humans Race Superstitions

More by Mark Twain

Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.

Image

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…

Image

“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before…

Image

It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.

Image

“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”

Image

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…

Image

There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

Image

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get…

Image

The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get…

Image

“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to…

Image

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

Image

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either…

Image

Explore all 3,277 Mark Twain quotes

More Conservatism quotes

Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that…

Image

Conservative feminism is such an artificial term that doesn't mean much to me. For me conservatism means accepting reality. I acknowledge that there are…

Kristina Schroder

Image

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

Image

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

Conservatism is the worship of dead revolutions.

Clinton Rossiter

Image

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

Image

“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

Image

The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they…

Image

Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to…

Barry Goldwater

Image

Browse all 428 Conservatism quotes