Quotes for All
All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove. Evan Davis
[Phyllis Schlaffley and Pat Buchanan and Jeff Sessions] do know conservatism, but I think they are wrong. Erick Erickson
Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in beliefs, ideas and possessions. The sterile radical, too, is basically conservative. He is afraid to let go of the ideas and beliefs he picked up in his youth lest his … Read more
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness and irrationality of men and women. Eric Gill
The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and… an eagerness to know what it is really all about, in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it. Elizabeth Kenny
Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,–the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and observation,–the less easily they are shocked. The narrowness and bigotry of women are the result of their circumscribed sphere of thought and action. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. Elbert Hubbard
The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the \”good old times,\”–he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares men from their propriety, will a hundred years hence be regarded as a remarkably conservative man. And yet the people who stand peculiarly upon what they call the foundations of conservatism, and hold … Read more
I wonder if it’s conservative or liberal [ inalienable rights idea], because when we think of liberal thought, when we think about the relation to liberty, we’re talking about traditional conservatism – as opposed to today’s conservatism, which no longer represents those views. Edward Snowden