Liberalism Vs Conservative Quotes

#1. Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone. - Author: Powell Clayton

#2. In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives. - Author: Camille Paglia

#3. Even if you have a brain predisposed to liberalism, you might end up with some conservative friends or find inspiring conservative role models who could be very influential on you, and that could send you down a different track in life. - Author: Jonathan Haidt

#4. But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things. - Author: T. S. Eliot

#5. The conservative thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary instrument for transforming society and even transforming human nature. In his march toward Utopia, the ideologue is merciless. - Author: Russell Kirk

#6. I don't see myself as a very important person. But I was the second woman to write a novel in Iran, and I have written most of the novels about Iranian women. In this way, maybe I have a good place in Iranian literature. - Author: Shahrnush Parsipur

#7. In the end, the difference between Conservatism and Liberalism seems to be this: the Conservative thinks of liberty as something to be preserved, the Liberal thinks of it as something to be enlarged. - Author: Clinton Rossiter

#8. While you were anesthetized to the tragedy of life you were able to survive. When clarity was returned to you, when it was painstakingly restored, it could drive you mad. - Author: Salman Rushdie

#9. Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism. - Author: Stanley Hauerwas

#10. Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. - Author: Aristotle.

#11. You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime. - Author: Tom Shales

#12. The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing. - Author: Oliver Goldsmith

#13. The conservative social critique always boils down to the same simple message: liberalism - meaning everything from racy TV to deconstructionists in the Yale French Department - is an affectation of the loathsome rich, as bizarre as their taste for Corgi dogs and extra-virgin olive oil. - Author: Thomas Frank

#14. Until the end of the 1960's I do not recall ever seriously exchanging ideas with an articulate conservative. They were there, but not on my scope. I systematically avoided any contact with those who would have challenged my ideology. - Author: Thomas C. Oden

#15. Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity. - Author: Dan Savage

#16. Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them. - Author: George R R Martin

#17. It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion. - Author: Voltaire

#18. Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love. - Author: Pitirim Sorokin

#19. I believe the default position in life is liberalism. You have to work at being a Conservative. - Author: Josh Bernstein

#20. Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists. - Author: Rich Lowry

#21. Seen as paving the way for an age of innovation. - Author: Edmund S. Phelps

#22. Because I'm criticizing liberalism, people automatically call me a conservative. This is madness! The idea that somehow one cannot critique liberalism from the left, from the left wing of liberalism. I mean, how can people be so stupid? - Author: Camille Paglia

#23. Was Philip Dexter upset?"
"He's telephoned the office every day."
She was pleased about that. "Who else was upset?"
"Everybody. Roosevelt orderded an hour of silence while you were on the table. Like Armistice Day. - Author: Rose Franken

#24. The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets. - Author: Richard A. Epstein