“We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security.” JobsPoliticalValuesCommunityModernConditionsSecurityPoliticianDirectConservativeFantasticHypocrisyWagesAssaultConservatismSalaryHypocriteConductingFamily ValuesPretenceInsincereDuplicityAnti Conservative Author:Paul Keating
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” MenPhilosophyCharacterPoliticalPoliticsMoralVirtueModernHonestyIgnorancePoliticianMoralityExerciseIntegrityClimate ChangeConservativeSelfishSuperiorsSelfishnessEngagedLiberalismJustificationConservatismMoral PhilosophySelf JustificationAnti ConservativeModern PhilosophyModern PoliticsConservative Political Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.” LittlesSelfValuesAnimalLeaderModernConsciousImportanceConservativeFollowersSelf ConsciousBiting Book:The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1932 Source: The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1932
“The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.” StatesNaturalModernConditionsMovementRevolutionDefinitionsConservativeUncomfortableConservation Author:Craig Shirley
“The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to be audacious, to take chances. It has to consider the probability that it would be wrong in a good many cases and take the consequences later.” HandsWould BeChoicesChanceCasesModernConsequenceHistoricalConservativeCarefulGood ManMuseumsProbabilityTake A ChanceAudacious Author:Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
“If you hear some bad collectivistic notions, chances are that they came from [modern] liberals. But if you hear or read something outrageously, god-awfully collectivistic, you may be sure that the author is a conservative.” IfsMayChanceModernNotionConservativeChances Are Author:Isabel Paterson
“The notion of a healthy society, of capable people who are able to enjoy life, arose in the liberal, middle-class, leftist and non-religious segments of society. The euthanasia idea came from neither the radical right-wing nor the conservative corner. It was and remains part of the modern age and progressive thought.” PeopleIdeasAgeAbleEnjoyReligiousClassModernMiddleHealthyCapableRemainsWingsNotionConservativeCornersRadicalMiddle ClassProgressiveEnjoy LifeRight WingLeftistsEuthanasiaModern AgeNon ReligiousHealthy Society Author:Gotz Aly
“Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. Fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long eons of time. I think what I'm doing in His Dark Materials is politically the reverse of that.” ThinkingWorldLongSeemsDarkModernMaterialsConservativePassagesFearfulReverseModern WorldReactionariesHis Dark Materials Author:Philip Pullman
“I was very prejudiced when I started arts school. I, like all of those kids, was like, "I don't like this modern stuff." I came to arts school with a very stupid, conservative set of ideas about art.” ArtIdeasKidsSchoolStuffModernStupidConservativeArt SchoolVery StupidStupid Conservative Author:Ragnar Kjartansson
“I wanted to write a book that showed how the subjectification of the "the murderer" has changed little in over a hundred years, and to argue that this "exceptional figure" serves a conservative function in modern culture that bears closer interrogation than it has commonly received.” WritingYearsLittlesBookWantedCultureModernFiguresChangedBearsHundredFunctionConservativeArguingMurdererExceptionalInterrogationModern Culture Author:Richard Marshall