62 quotes found
“When I voted, my equality tumbled into the box with my ballot; they disappeared together.”
“The conservative does not defend the Old Regime; he speaks on behalf of old regimesin the family, the factory, the field. There, ordinary men, and sometimes women, get to play the part of little lo...”
“If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the s...”
“In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order.”
“No one ever made more trouble than gentle Jesus meek and mild.”
“Orwell clung with a kind of wry, grim pride to the old ways of the last class that had ruled the old order. He must sometimes have wondered how it came about that he should be praising sportsmanshi...”
“If he had gone to the old school, he was by no means old-school.”
“Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics.”
“Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.”
“He who is not liberal with what he has, does but deceive himself when he thinks he would be liberal if he had more”
“A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distin-quished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.”
“We are reformers in spring and summer in autumn and winter we stand by the old reformers in the morning conservers at night. Reform is affirmative conservatism negative conservatism goes for c...”
“A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution " the old one.”
“What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?”
“Being tame is what we're taught: ... put the crayons back, stay in line, don't talk too loud, keep your knees together, nice girls don't...As you might know, nice girls DO, and they like to feel wi...”
“Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people.”
“I began to realize that maybe my opinions just didn’t fit in with the liberal status quo, which seems to mean that you must absolutely hate Trump, his supporters and everything they believe. If you...”
“There’s only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.”
“We are reformers in spring and summer in autumn and winter we stand by the old reformers in the morning conservers at night. Reform is affirmative conservatism negative conservatism goes for comfor...”
