Brian Eno Quotes

The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.

Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century.

Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war with the world.

I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.

Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.

Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.

Conservatism as an "ism" is always going to be somewhat in tension with a political party.

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.

Conservatism in general is bad, and it's racist and sexist.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

I'm severely conservative.

The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It's really precious, and it's really easy to lose.

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.

I'm a registered conservative.

There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government.

Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

I'm as conservative as they come.

But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

Conservatism, I believe, is mainly due to want of imagination.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

Nothing is more difficult, in general, than to make a nation perceive anything as true, or seek its own interest, in any manner but as its forefathers have opined and acted.

Conservatism is the perfect antidote to underdevelopment. Its commitment to individual responsibility, education, hard work, personal initiative, traditional family values and free markets is a universal formula for success in a free society.