Charles M. Blow Quotes

Conservatism, by all means, if there is anything worth conserving, and everything not worth losing. Revolution, if there is nothing worth conserving, and everything worth gaining. These are the class lines upon which the political battle is being fought, and is bound to be fought

All political action aims at either preservation or change.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted — in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest — at the command — of his head.

That is when the Left is going to love America - when it is not America anymore.

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

I'm not a reactionary.

I'm conservative on some issues, and I'm progressive on others.

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.

I think that liberals need to grow up.

There is a new conservative establishment in America, made up of those who claim to be the anti-establishment.

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

Culture does matter, but politics can change culture.

America is a conservative country with a small “c” - they want change, but they don’t want too much change too fast.

Conservatives want to keep things as they are, while revolutionists turn things upside down.

I think a lot of things have become associated with the Right. For example, an unapologetic commitment to progress and modernity is now almost always associated with neo-conservatism whereas it traditionally used to be associated with left-wing thinking and moving society forward.

I don't even know what progressive is anymore, to be honest!

Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.

Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.