181 Quotes About Conservatism

As long as there are crazed or crafty leaders to play on old fears, a mob will turn cruel.

... the new high-class lively evening paper which was expected to meet a want felt in circles increasingly conscious that Conservatism must be made amusing, and unconvinced when assured by those of another political colour that it was already amusing enough.

In theory of the authoritarian personality, Adorno et al. (1950) argue that paternal punitiveness creates fear and aggressiveness that encourages individuals to seek certainty and environmental control. This motivation leads people to embrace authority, suppress societal difference, and generally endorse attitudes in line with conservatism.

He was everything. The soldier who loved poetry. The historian who loved to paint. The diplomat who thrived on indiscretion. The patriot with international vision. The orderly man given to electric spontaneities. (on Winston Churchill)

Nosotros recibimos con agrado las etiquetas que nos adjudican nuestros adversarios porque entendemos que estamos haciéndoles daño políticamente y representando a muchos españoles que se sentían huérfanos.

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew…

If I could re-establish a class of nobles, I should do so at once, and I would not belong to it.

Before you take anything away you must have something better to put in its place.

If a man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he…thinks laws in his own case superfluous.