What conservatives do behind closed doors is their business, but I draw the line at giving them special rights such as where they live, where they can work and being allowed to marry or adopt children.
Conservative Quotes
I’m a conservative in government because I’m a radical in every other human activity. The only way in which we maximize the possibilities of human beings to invent themselves and reinvent themselves, pursue their own ideas and models and desires, is when we make sure the government is strong enough and firm enough to maintain […]
“Conservative” has been carelessly appropriated by the media to mean no more than the side you’re not meant to like. John Ashcroft is a hardline conservative, but so, according to the press, is the Taliban and half the Chinese politburo and the crankier Ayatollahs.
If the basis of the conservative ideology is responsibility for ones actions, then how can they say Hollywood or the media is responsible for our actions?
Conservatism is sometimes confused with social Darwinism or other such me-first dogmas. Sometimes the confusion is deliberate. When those who are against conservative policies don’t have sufficient opposition arguments, they call the love of freedom selfish. Of course it is – in the sense that breathing’s selfish. But because you want to breathe doesn’t mean […]
Liberals are builders and conservatives are defenders. Liberals want to build a good and just society. Conservatives defend what is already built and established. This is what the left and the right are for. What draws a person to one or the other is more a matter of personality than anything else.
I never dared to be a radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
If you ask a conservative whether he’d like a liberal or conservative amount of freedom, everyone becomes a liberal. If you ask a liberal whether she wants a conservative or liberal amount of government intrusion into our private affairs, everyone becomes a conservative.
Our ‘neoconservatives’ are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.
Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
