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 life be seen as empty and wasted.
People want results. I call it 'results oriented conservatism,' R. O. C. because that's what people want out of government.
I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.
I'm not poor now, but unlike some of my friends who are now rich, I haven't embraced conservatism and religion. I'm not opposed to religion if you keep it out of my life.
Conservatism has always meant more to me than simply sticking up for private property & free enterprise. It has also meant defending our heritage & preserving our values.
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.
Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.
Conservatism in general is bad, and it's racist and sexist.
Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good.
Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
I think that conservatism as we understand it is coming under great strain during the era of Trump.
Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.
There is no incompatibility between moral clarity and intellectual firepower, between faith in God and humility -- in fact, they're mutually dependent, between a strong conviction that we must go to war and an abundant compassion for any that may die as a result, and between political conservatism and personal decency.
The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. .
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.
Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.
There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
