Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

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

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

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

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

Incontestably, the great centres of population in the primeval ages were the chalklands, and next to them those of limestone. The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter.

[Describing the Republican Party:] ... the party of memory

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

Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.

The Past is utterly indifferent to its worshippers.

I am always astonished that conservatives want to save money by paying workers less—driving down the wages of working people.

Events have moved on, yet some people still keep talking about the past.

Being Conservative is only another way of being British.

This is garbage from right-wing think-tanks stuffed with chicken hawks -- men who have never seen the horror of war but are in love with the idea of war.

Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it was a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Mother’s cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance. It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.

The historian is a prophet looking bzckwards.

We must not continue to dwell in the past and we must resolve to do the right and march along with the rest of the world.

We who believe in democracy and in liberty are going to win. The statists and the Islamists are standing against the irrevocable march of history.

How different these enlightened voices from the past sound compared to the frenetic ranting and condemnations of everything that is new and different that we see and hear everywhere in the Arab and Muslim worlds today

Conservatives are fond of telling us what a wonderful, happy, prosperous nation this is. The only thing that matches their love of country is the remarkable indifference they show toward the people who live in it.

It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.

The Republican world view is, if you are down on your luck, you are out of luck.

Every conservative policy, however, is fated from the start to fail; after all, its essence is to stop something unstoppable, to resist a development that cannot be impeded.

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.

All ancient history is dark and uncertain.