Caroline Lucas Quotes

People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

I am a Conservative, so I don't wish to be seen as a rebel, particularly, at all.

My family is very conservative.

I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.

Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.

The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.

In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

I'm very conventional compared to my parents.

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

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

My childhood was as conventional as you could get.

I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

It's time for conservative Americans to do what Reagan did.

Negativity sells. I have been labelled a rebel. If I had been one, would I have got married at 23? Would I have been a straight A student?

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.

Some days, I think maybe we should try and be a little more conventional, but every time I try, I fail, so I'm learning to not even entertain that thought anymore.

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

I've always been conservative. I was born that way.

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.

Everything popular is wrong.