Conservatism Quotes

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

For many of our shareholders, our stock is all they own, and we're acutely aware of that. Our culture [of conservatism] runs pretty deep.

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no.

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

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

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

There's a religious basis to their [Bush and Chaney] kind of conservatism. It's rooted in a kind of fundamentalism. I'm afraid of that. I don't like that idea. I think all extremism is suspect.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.

Socialism is an insurance policy bought by all the members of a national economy to shield them from risk. But the result is to shield them from knowledge of the real dangers and opportunities.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.

Companionate Conservatism - Making the streets safer before people are kicked out onto them.

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

Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.

The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.

We gotta ditch conservatism and people that believe it, we gotta move on. Otherwise, if we don't, we're just delaying our nightmare, postponing the nightmare. That's Ford O'Connell.

All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.

Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.

The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.

Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.

Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, rarely resisted, towards utopianism.

I think that conservatism as we understand it is coming under great strain during the era of Trump.

What the heck would the establishment know about conservatism?

In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

I think essentially corrupting institutions in Washington are turning conservatism into something that is really very creepy, but also emotionally and psychically powerful for people.

Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.

I want the American people to understand that conservatism... is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form.

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans.

People want results. I call it 'results oriented conservatism,' R.O.C. because that's what people want out of government.

When the Republican Party is no longer the party of fiscal conservatism then clearly I would argue that we've lost our way.

My anti-liberal position should not be mistaken for conservatism.

The [Sarah ]Palin endorsement as sort of vouching for Donald Trump is all about. She is the sort of tribune of not conservatism as ideology.

David Frum has been saying - [Donald] Trump is all about conservatism as identity, not conservatism as ideology.

I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. .

A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

Plus, publishing's inherent conservatism, means that what little did get through was weighted towards the commercial end of the scale, which is not the kind of writing that excites me.

I think Ronald Reagan is what happened....The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream....It also brought us the beginning of the new media-talk radio, the internet, cable television.

There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

[Phyllis Schlaffley and Pat Buchanan and Jeff Sessions] do know conservatism, but I think they are wrong.

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.