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Letter "C" » conservatism
«Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism»
Author: Abraham Kuyper
(Journalist, Prime Minister, Statesman, Theologian)
| Keywords:
bury, conservatism, orthodoxy, pit, spurious, treacherous
«Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.»
Author: Bernadette Devlin
(Politician)
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Among the, conservatism, equality, Ireland, massive, mother church, obstacle, ranks, The Path, Threats, traitors, ward, warding, ward off
«Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.»
Author: Daisaku Ikeda
(Activist, Buddhist Leader)
| About:
Buddhism
| Keywords:
Buddhism, conservatism, flux, initiative, passively, swept, Swept Away
«All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Conservatism
| Keywords:
conservatism, Leave It, torrent
«It seems to me a barren thing this conservatism - an unhappy cross breed, the mule of politics that engenders nothing»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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breed, conservatism, engender, Engendered, engenders, mule, The Mule
«Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
antiquities, antiquity, conservatism, disavow, disavowed, disavowing, disavows, discards, offers, preparation, prescription, prescriptions, redress, redressed, redressing, rejected, shrinks
«Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Conservatism
| Keywords:
blind, blinder, blinding, conservatism, dead, fear, filled, fill in, fill out, radicals, The Blind, to be filled, worship, worshipping
«Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. The Conservative»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
breathes, conservatism, husbandry, prudence, reform
«Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth; reform more disposed to maintain and increase its own. The Conservative»
«I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer, just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals . . . The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom, and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
centralized, centralizing, conservatism, description, General Government, heart and soul, interference, liberalism, Liberals, libertarianism, misnomer, the Liberals
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