Conservatism Quotes - Page 7

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

  Bobby Jindal

  Party, Way, Arguing

  "GOP Struggles for Salvation". Austin American-Statesman, November 23, 2008.

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

  Agnes Repplier

  Change, Party, Political

  Agnes Repplier (1920). “Points of Friction”

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• Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Psychology, Poison

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• Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism continues to enjoy the traction that it does in our poor civilization.

  L. Neil Smith

  Civilization, Doe, Popularity

  "Revenge of the Cookie Monster". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. January 31, 2010.

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• The degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system... simplicity, plausibility, and conservatism are properties that theories have in virtue of their relation to the whole structure of scientific beliefs taken collectively. A measure of conservatism or simplicity would be a metric over global properties of belief systems.

  Jerry Fodor

  Taken, Simplicity, Degrees

  "The Modularity of Mind". Book by Jerry Fodor, plato.stanford.edu. 1983.

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

  Camille Paglia

  Anti Liberal, Should, Mistaken

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.241, Vintage

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• It is a striking example of modern conservatism's emphasis on the moral worth of the individual. ... When I look at the debate over Elian...I have to say that rarely have I been prouder of my fellow conservatives.

  Ramesh Ponnuru

  Example, Looks, Moral

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• One of the basic philosophical tenets of conservatism - which says that the more power devolves from the federal government to the states, the greater individual freedom grows - is just flatly contradicted by crucial junctures in the country's life, most conspicuously in the 1860s and 1960s, when it's been the federal government that's interceded against the states to secure individual freedom.

  Steve Erickson

  Country, Philosophical, Government

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.

  Robert Heller

  Lying, Creativity, Innovation

  "The Decision Makers". Book by Robert Heller, 1989.

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• Conservative feminism is such an artificial term that doesn't mean much to me. For me conservatism means accepting reality. I acknowledge that there are differences between men and women.

  Kristina Schroder

  Mean, Reality, Men

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• William Graebner's brilliant analysis of America's struggles over the meaning of Patty Hearst gives us not only new perspectives on the 1970s, on Americans' fundamental understandings of their world in a bicentennial year that offered little to celebrate, but also on the longing for heroism and the desire for belief in free will that Graebner believes structured the rise of Reagan-era conservatism. This is a masterful work of cultural history.

  Beth Bailey

  Believe, Struggle, Years

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• You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct. True conservatism is only possible through knowledge and reason.

  Warren Buffett

  Facts, Reason, Hypothesis

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• Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is "Prove all things and hold fast that which is good" and of the other "Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old."

  William Osler

  Different, Motto, Prove

  Sir William Osler (1985). “The educational essays”

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• All Taliban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ['ifraat,' or doing something to excess] and conservatism ['tafreet,' or doing something insufficiently]. So in that sense, we are all moderates - taking the middle path.

  Mohammed Omar

  Two, Middle Path, Excess

  "Omar: 'Our plan is the destruction of America'". BBC World Service Interview, www.independent.co.uk. November 16, 2001.

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• I think a Donald Trump presidency raises a new kind of version of conservatism which more closely resembles a kind of Father Coughlin, America first populism and nativism and isolationism, than the confident, modern, cosmopolitan, thoughtful, engaged conservatism of Ronald Reagan and Paul Ryan.

  Bret Stephens

  Father, Thinking, Thoughtful

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I feel like my political beliefs are rooted in the conservatism that I was raised with.

  Hillary Clinton

  Political, Belief, Raised

  "'Goldwater Girl': Putting Context To A Resurfaced Hillary Clinton Interview". Interview with Scott Simon, wrvo.org. March 26, 2016.

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• 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.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Moving, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Those people who espouse conservatism that causes them to be under permanent attack by the left gay activists cabal, those people are in need of a protection. They're not doing that because it's fun. They're not taking that stand because it's fun, they're taking that stand because that's what they believe in, and they need to have somebody standing up for them, and I'm more than happy to do so.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Fun, Believe, Gay

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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

  Rush Limbaugh

  Racist, Sexist

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In my early twenties the nature of conservatism itself changed. When I identified as a fourteen-year-old conservative, it was closer to what we today think of as libertarianism - conservatism, at least for me, had been defined by Jeffersonian credos like "the best governed are the least governed" and "I have sworn eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man" that were very idealistic and romantic to a kid.

  Steve Erickson

  Kids, Men, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the Respublican party's lost its way. We have given into nativism and protectionism. And I think that, if we're going to be a governing party in the future, and a majority party, we have got to go back to traditional conservatism, limited government, economic freedom, individual responsibility, respect for free trade. Those are the principles that made us who we are.

  Jeff Flake

  Party, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.

  Bill Moyers

  Ideas, Facts, Life Is

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

  Thorstein Veblen

  Class, Innovation, Characteristics

  Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.124, Courier Corporation

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• Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies it is often closer to socialism than true liberalism; and with its traditionalistic, anti-intellectual, and often mystical propensities it will never, except in short periods of disillusionment, appeal to the young and all those others who believe that some changes are desirable if this world is to become a better place.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Believe, Intellectual, Elements

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich August von Hayek, 1944.

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• [Conservatism:] Our revolutionary message... is that a self-disciplined people can create a political community in which an ordered liberty will promote both economic prosperity and political participation.

  Irving Kristol

  Self, People, Community

  Irving Kristol's essay in "American Spectator Magazine", 1977.

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