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Conservatism |
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 | The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist 12 likes |
 | Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 9 likes |
 | Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 8 likes |
 | Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things. — Douglas Adams, 1952-2001, British Sci-Fi writer 8 likes |
 | I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. — Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister 7 likes |
 | A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 5 likes |
 | Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 4 likes |
 | A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. — Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661, English thinker 3 likes |
 | When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. — Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement 3 likes |
 | A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 3 likes |
 | A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. — Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924, American President [1913-1921] 3 likes |
 | If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run — and often in the short one — the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 2 likes |
 | When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new’. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 2 likes |
 | Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid. |
 | Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work. |
 | The one who has never lost his mind is the one who had no mind to lose. |
 | People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas. |
 | The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. |
| The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man — that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense — has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic |
 | Anguish over the decline of civilization is the affliction of a conservative. The leftist cannot lament the disappearance of something of which he is ignorant. |
 | Conservative, n. A statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a Liberal, who wants to replace them with others. |
 | One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring. |
