Paul Rust Quotes

I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing.

People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of coffee tables and dashboard Virgin Marys that glowed in the dark.

I'm probably the most uptight, conservative person you'll meet. I'm very religious.

The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

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

I'm very square and proud of it. The flag stays on the porch here.

I grew up in a very conservative home.

People aren't allowed to be themselves in snooker.

I am quite a conservative person, just as an individual.

Small towns harbor small imaginations.

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.

It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But they meant it as a compliment, not a slur, and it was so taken, and we were all proud of it. I remember it well, although I was only a boy; and I remember, too, the pleasure it gave me.

I am a proud conservative.

Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.

My parents are not people who would want to rock the boat. They wouldn't break the law.

I had a lot of difficulty growing up in a society where everything is very closed-minded, especially with beauty.

Our leaders are archaic masculine figures in so far as they are aggressively old-fashioned in their masculinity, people like Trump, potentially Boris Johnson.

My friends have always known there was this more serious side to me, and all my life, I've had Conservative values.

I've made no pretence to be a modern man at all, ever.

The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.