Ancient Quote by Mary Beard Download Open image “There is nothing inherently conservative in the ancient world.” — Mary Beard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Conservative Nothing World
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 Copy Share Image
I was told over and over the poetry in forms was "conservative" but there was no analysis of why this was so. — Juliana Spahr Copy Share Image
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous. — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“To be conservative in politics is to take one’s bearings not from the latest bright idea about how to make a better world, but… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The abjectly poor, and all those person whose energies are entirely absorbed by the struggle for daily sustenance, are conservative because they cannot afford… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Being conservative has never been regarded as old-fashioned. But if you fight for a sensible step in the right direction which others has deserted… — Poul Henningsen Copy Share Image
I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“we have no template for what a powerful woman looks like, except that she looks rather like a man.” — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“(In the Afghan parliament, apparently, they disconnect the mics when they don’t want to hear the women speak).” — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I've chosen to be this way because that's how I feel comfortable with myself. That's how I am. It's about joining up the dots… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Wherever possible, I try to see things from the other side of the dividing line and to read civilisation 'against the grain.' — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“thinking about power as an attribute or even a verb (‘to power’), not as a possession.” — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
