Characteristics Quote by Thorstein Veblen

Conservatism in general is bad, and it's racist and sexist.

— Rush Limbaugh

Conservatism is the perfect antidote to underdevelopment. Its commitment to individual responsibility, education, hard work, personal initiative, traditional family values and free markets is…

— Shelby Steele

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

— Jill Lepore

Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies it is…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.

— Greg Bear

Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

— Jill Lepore

Conservatism is the new counterculture.

— Gavin McInnes

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried

— Abraham Lincoln

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

— Jesse Helms