Preston Manning Quotes

I am just the most boring person you will ever meet. I'm the good Southern daughter. I'm not outrageous.

One of my goals in life is to watch political correctness shrivel up and die (as it should be for any true conservative).

There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

Proponents of same-sex marriage regularly label opponents 'radical' and 'extremist.' However, given that no society in thousands of years has allowed same-sex marriage, it is, by definition, the proponents of same-sex marriage whose position is radical and extreme.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving.

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

I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

People all over the world are today questioning matters that only a few generations ago were generally seen as "just the way things are.”

Where a bad custom has been in existence for any length of time, most people grow to regard it as part of the order of nature.

There are some good traditions in our culture, one of which is that men dance with women. Soon we will reach the stage where we will all have to publicly apologise for being heterosexual.

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

How is it possible that in just the last ten years all of these things which were taboo throughout our culture, throughout the culture, things that were taboo are now not only normal but celebrated, and people who were not really supportive of them are called kooks and the new weirdos?

The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.

In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.

The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.

In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable to certain laws of conventional propriety and honor, has for its object simply the gratification of its appetites, and frowns with quite a conservative air on all new inventions, all untried experiments in iniquity.

It's disrespectful to the older generation to have long hair. They fought in two world wars; they didn't fight for us to grow our hair and look like girls.

You still hear this perception that boys are good at math and girls are not, and it's not cool and it's not interesting. And I think we have to shift the culture. It's so deeply entrenched in who we are.

Americans are locked into our traditions.

American culture is so open compared to Korean culture, which is really conservative.

The empire of custom is most mighty.

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.