Quotes with conservative

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  • A. E. Housman The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Ariel Durant The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
    Ariel Durant
    Russian-born American researcher and writer (1898 - 1981)
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  • Samuel Butler The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Salman Rushdie The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, America could turn permanently blue.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau The man for who the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith 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
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Ernest Bevin The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.
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  • Woodrow Wilson The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Hannah Arendt The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Mark Twain The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bill Flores The Republican Study Committee was started and has grown to be sure that we create and promote, advance and execute conservative policies for the betterment of hard-working American families.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Harold Rosenberg The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • Norman Tebbit The word ''conservative'' is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.
    Norman Tebbit
    British politician (1931 - )
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  • Barack Obama There is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there's the United States of America.
    Speech DNC, 2004
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bernard Goldberg This is the essence of the problem. To Dan Rather and to a lot of other powerful members of the chattering class, that which is right of center is conservative. That which is left of center is middle of the road. No wonder they can't recognize their own bias.
    Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • Al Franken To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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  • Ang Lee To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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