181 Quotes About Conservatism

I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative party because it is the party of nonpolitics, of resistance to politics. I have seen how many of the evils of life — failure, loneliness, fear, boredom, inability to communicate — are ineradicable by political means, and that attempts so to eradicate them are disastrous.

There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism

The first few years after Samuel came to Salinas Valley there was a vague distrust of him. And perhaps Will as a little boy heard talk in the San Lucas store. Little boys don't want their fathers to be different from other men. Will might have picked up his conservatism right then.

[Dagley] had also taken too much in the shape of muddy political talk, a stimulant dangerously disturbing to his farming conservatism, which consisted in holding that whatever is, is bad, and any change is likely to be worse.

The future is what's wrong with the world today. There's too much future and not enough past!

By the eighteenth century many were showing all the negative conservatism of a vested interest overtaken by events: dogged devotion to old techniques, suspicion of innovation, resentment of competition and xenophobia.

No one ever made more trouble than gentle Jesus meek and mild.

Romper la continuidad com el pasado, querer comenzar de nuevo, es apirar a descender y plagiar al orangután.

[Conservatism is] a fight for keeping these qualities that made us move unceasingly.