Conservatism Quotes - Page 14

• They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it conforms to no intellectual standard, it is not safe, or calculated to preserve from the spoilers that degree of civilization which we have already attained.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Spiritual, Civilization, Intellectual

  "The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes". Book by John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge University Press, volume IX, 1998.

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• I think having power ingrains people with a conservatism. There's a tendency to hedge one's bets. (Which explains a lot, actually, about why the movie business is the way it is, and why the publishing industry is too.)

  Matthew Specktor

  Thinking, People, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Powerful, Thinking, People

  Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

  Malachy McCourt

  Political, Brain, Damage

  Source: bigthink.com

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• A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.

  Frank Dane

  Men, Thinking, Squares

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• A form of conservatism that makes clear we have problems in this country, it's not just about individualism, we have to help people who feel they're being failed by the system.

  Damian Green

  Country, People, Helping

  "Boris Johnson says he is out of Tory party leadership race after Gove challenge - as it happened" by Andrew Sparrow, Haroon Siddique, Nadia Khomami and Chris Johnston, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2016.

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

  Erick Erickson

  Thinking, Session, Knows

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• How does conservatism find its way into the body politic? I think most people actually live their lives that way, but they have been poisoned into not voting that way because the brand - conservatism brand, Republican brand - has been summarily destroyed over the years.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• G.K. Chesterton, who was part of a Catholic conservatism that was kind and loving, not reactionary or hateful, said "We're all in the same boat in a stormy sea and we owe each other a terrible loyalty." I think that's profoundly true, yet it's difficult to have civil dialogue right now with other Christians, so how can we possibly talk to "all the nations"?

  Richard Rohr

  Christian, Loyalty, Thinking

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• Donald Trump descends in a very powerful way from longstanding tenets of American conservatism, they're just not the movement conservatism we associate with Reagan.

  Sam Tanenhaus

  Powerful, Movement, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Of course there are different forms of conservatism. I would say just analytically that the Republican Party is more thoroughly conservative and the Democratic Party is more thoroughly liberal today than has been the case for most of modern history.

  William Kristol

  Party, Different, Today

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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