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The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.
Celibacy used to offend family-values conservatism; now it offends equally against the opposite spirit.
When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.
[Phyllis Schlaffley and Pat Buchanan and Jeff Sessions] do know conservatism, but I think they are wrong.
Some may try to argue that conservatism and libertarianism are contradictory perspectives. But I disagree.
If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?
I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.
Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
Harvey Weinstein does not personify American liberalism any more than Bill O'Reilly personifies American conservatism.
During the 1980s, many people mistook Thatcherism and Reaganism - actually a wild form of liberalism - for conservatism.
I think, as Republicans, we need to stick by what we believe in. And that is fiscal conservatism and individual freedom.
People want results. I call it 'results oriented conservatism,' R.O.C. because that's what people want out of government.
The principles of conservatism include upholding the rule of law and the United Kingdom's international legal obligations.
I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.
Conservatism is all about surfaces and labels and presentation, and drag says no, we refuse to follow any rules about that.
As someone who has spent much of my life identifying as a conservative, I can't stand what American conservatism has become.
The genteel conservatism of 'Downton Abbey' is not a rigid, extremist ideology whose adherents are bent on power at all costs.
Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.
I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.
I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.
Conservatism accomplished a lot of its goals in the latter part of the 20th century. What does 21st-century conservatism look like?
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
Few news stories can demonstrate the stark difference between conservatism and liberalism like the George Zimmerman trial has done.
2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.
Conservatism should be a reality-based philosophy, and the movement will be better off if it recognizes that facts really do matter.
I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.
I'm going to speak my mind. I'm going to defend conservatism as I understand it. I'm going to defend our ideas as the Republican Party.
As an ideology - and certainly as a political identity - conservatism is less popular than the very principles and values it stands for.
For many of our shareholders, our stock is all they own, and we're acutely aware of that. Our culture [of conservatism] runs pretty deep.
People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.
Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.
Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.
I get grumpy about the innate conservatism of our tastes; I love bold theatre, and I get annoyed when a heritage piece is really successful.
For a long time, New Orleans was the classic-rock station of American cuisine, its reputation for flamboyance belying its playlist conservatism.
Social conservatism was really bringing me down. And I realized, as time went on, that I wasn't a Bush conservative. I was really a libertarian.
Obamacare notwithstanding, the current president's progressive instincts have been neutered by the rise of the Tea Party and Luddite conservatism.
In many ways, Nixon started the modern notion of 'compassionate conservatism,' which as we all know is neither 'compassionate' nor 'conservative.'
I'm very much engaged in the political battles, but I'm doing it as a supporter of Republicans out of conservatism rather than an active candidate.
Of course, it is the case that conservatism as I envisage it distances itself always from abstract conceptions and tries to find the concrete reality.
Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.
Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.
I want to reignite the idea of community with a positive conservatism in which the word 'development' has a new connotation, kind of like a social revolution.