Social Conservatism Quotes

#1. Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

Rick Perlstein

#2. My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.

Gary Johnson

#3. It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.

Edmund White

#4. "Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism.

Mark Steyn

#5. What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

George Gordon Byron

#6. For nearly a decade Democrats have sought a religious wedge issue that could separate big chunks of white evangelical voters from their Republican home. Now they've found it, and are thrusting at the Social Darwinist/Ayn Rand underbelly of American conservatism.

Marvin Olasky

#7. Death and adversity come to us all, but so does life everlasting!

Joy F. Evans

#8. You know what will bring family and social issues front and center? If 2012 America sees middle-schoolers reenacting Lady Gaga videos.

Jim Geraghty

#9. I think that stupidity is like a wild fire burning through the social fabric of an intrinsically reasonable existence.

Travis Culliton

#10. Work eagerly.
Work effectually.
Work energetically.
Work enduringly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. E-Verify is a very commonsense reform that we can implement here in the state of Florida. I think I share a lot of Floridians' frustration that it didn't pass and a lot of the politics that were taking place behind the scenes.

Adam Hasner

#12. It's never been my desire to conquer you, Amelia. If you leave this room with me, it must be at my side. As my wife, my lover, my partner ... " His thumb brushed her lip. "My dearest friend.

Tessa Dare

#13. If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Jonah Goldberg

#14. Motherfucker. She leaves me no choice. Now I have to break her self-esteem, sleep with her and steal the shirt.

Tucker Max

#15. Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. In my view, the future of politics is, without a doubt, social liberalism married to economic conservatism. Which means we have to make an economic argument to social liberals, that it's OK to vote for us. But we won't run the economy into the ground at the same time.

Louise Mensch

#17. The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.

Paul Morphy

#18. I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#19. Men are unwise and curiously planned.

Doris Lessing

#20. Imagine if the United States, in its war against Hitler, had said to Stalin: we don't want your support until you make your country democratic.

Natan Sharansky

#21. Social conservatives seem to see a bigger threat to marriage from committed gay couples who want in on it than from straight ones who opt out of it.

Margaret Talbot

#22. Something new seems to be at work in the contemporary world - a process that is eating away the very heart of social life, not merely by putting salesmanship in place of moral virtue, but by putting everything - virtue included - on sale.

Roger Scruton

#23. In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us.

John Grogan

#24. Surfing is not my strong point. And ... I don't really have a tan. I go to the tanning place, the one that sprays you with color.

Lori Loughlin

#25. Some of those things come out and you don't know where they came from - somebody's leaking totally false information. They follow you for years and you have to be like, "I don't know anything about that."

Mary Elizabeth Winstead