Conventional wisdom Quote by Ryan Holiday

“Be realistic we're told. Listen to feedback. Play well with others. Compromise. Well, what if the "other" party is wrong? What if conventional wisdom…

— Ryan Holiday

Look. Every partisan in every party has to learn one thing: Sometimes your people are wrong. To paraphrase an old retort, saying "My party,…

— James Lileks

“we’re subtly pressed to believe what we’re expected to believe as a good “conservative” or a good “liberal.” Anything outside our narrow channel is…

— Charles J. Chaput

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is…

— Carroll Quigley

“First, many of us are tempted to affirm whatever our favorite political tribe affirms, and deny whatever it denies. Nobody likes to risk losing…

— Charles J. Chaput

English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Thoughtful disagreement is not a battle; its goal is not to convince the other party that he or she is wrong and you are…

— Ray Dalio

“A double standard, albeit unintended, violates our integrity and damages our credibility. In a global society, conflict is rarely the fault of only one…

— Karen Armstrong

“We have two parties here, and only two. One is the evil party, and the other is the stupid party. Occasionally, the two parties…

— Everett Dirksen

People used to complain in the 50s and 60s and even in the 70s when I was in school, studying political science, that "if…

— William Kristol

“Conservatism does not have a party line. It is possible for conservatives to question virtually any position held by other conservatives including, evidently, the…

— David Horowitz

“About fifteen years ago a conservative columnist wrote that Americans are faced with a choice between the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. And…

— Thomas E. Woods Jr