Ernest Bevin Quotes

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

All great Peoples are conservative; slow to believe in novelties; patient of much error in actualities.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that ancient institution, the old one.

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Man is by nature a conservative animal and government is his instrument for preventing rapid change.

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

Seabeck is slow to change.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

I like progress but I hate change.

It appears that PepsiCo views structural change as a sign of weakness, an admission of failure, and an untenable break with past traditions.

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.

Professional opinion is almost inevitably against changes.

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

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear.

Keep yourselves to what is old, for that is good; our ancestors have proved it to be good; why should not we do as they did? New ideas [i.e. democracy, parliamentary reform] are now coming forward of which I do not nor ever shall approve. Mistrust these ideas and keep to the positive.

England is a slow moving country, reluctant to change—deeply reluctant to change.

What brought Conservatism into existence was the French Revolution.

The adherents of the old order have a powerful ally in the natural law of inertia inherent in humanity which is … a natural defense against change.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

Being Conservative is only another way of being British.

Inertia is the most powerful force in politics.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas — uncertainty, progress, change — into crimes.