Best 633 quotes in «conservative quotes» category

Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition

Money makes people bold and cosmopolitan; if you are poor, you are naturally conservative. Its not easy to be a bohemian when you have to worry about what is going to happen with you and with your next paycheck.

More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and ability norms.

Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.

Most conservative and progressive talk radio is primarily just that - bloviated opinion and whacky viewer calls.

Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative.

MSNBC will never be as liberal as Fox is conservative.

My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.

My dad didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work

My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly.

No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.

Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it's the objective.

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

My kids would probably say that I'm too strict. They probably would say that, and I try not to be, but I'm probably more on the conservative end of that. At the same time, I know full well that ultimately I don't really have control over them.

No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.

Nobody is more conservative when it comes to trade than I am.

No gains without pains.

Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from nowhere and he has a tendency to say them at exactly the time when they most undermine the conservative agenda.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance.

Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist.

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.

Of course we can talk about the radical potential of youth. But in the U.S. it is still the case that most youth are conservative and not very sympathetic to the working class.

Of course, in our country, developing in a region with somewhat conservative traditions, women were desperately needed to be more engaged - socially, economically, politically.

One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary.

One and God make a majority.

...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.

One of the striking things and Donald Trump is right, he gets no Democratic votes. It`s interesting there were Democrats from states some of them more conservative states that voted him, Indiana, Missouri, West Virginia, Montana, North Dakota. They`re not afraid of Donald Trump those Democratic Senators because they know more than he knows and know what the people want.

One shark turned to the other to say he was fed up chasing tuna and the other said, 'Why don't we go to Morecambe Bay and get some Chinese?'

On some issues, I'm a staunch Conservative — like curtailing greenhouse gas emissions so that we can Conserve the environment.

Our only hope for America is that every conservative takes upon him or herself the project of learning what American and conservative values are, coming to understand what leftism stands for, and learning how to make the case for those values to women, young people, blacks and Hispanics.

Opposing taxes is a key conservative value.

Our planet is falling victim to a rigorism, so that what is done in any remote corner affects - nay, menaces - the whole. Resiliency and tolerance are lost.

Our nation's continued prosperity hinges on our ability to solve environmental problems and sustain the natural resources on which we all depend.

Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.

Our victory was a victory and a win for conservative values.

Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.

Paradigms of Republican vs. Democrat or Conservative vs. Progressive have been designed for obfuscation and entertainment.

Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.

People should not have to pay for pollution they do not cause.

People always say, "Could it have been a show about a conservative Republican administration?" No! Nobody wants to watch that! Watching Republicans flirt makes people queasy!

People are voting for Conservatives in greater numbers, but it's not translating into Conservative seats.

People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.

People ask me what I am politically and I've previously offered this equation: I became a conservative by being around liberals. And I became a libertarian after being around conservatives.

Putin has been - and with a lot of the groups, the conservative groups, the more extreme conservative groups that underlie Trump, he's a bit of a hero because he speaks for traditional values, he's against the global institutions.

Planned Parenthood, we're going to get rid of that.