“Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.” MenWantMomentsClassWrittenMiddleSonRevolutionElementsRedConservativeSocialismSupposed To BeRevolutionaryFlagsWorking ClassProletariatBourgeoisieUpper ClassWorking Man Author:George Bernard Shaw
“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
“Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal antireligionism which animated so much of nineteenth-century Continental liberalism. ... What distinguishes the liberal from the conservative here is that, however profound his own spiritual beliefs, he will never regard himself as entitled to impose them on others and that for him the spiritual and the temporal are different sphere which ought not to be confused.” I CanDifferentSpiritualReligionBeliefCenturyRevolutionOughtRespectRegardProfoundConservativeConfusedLiberalismSpheresEntitledQuarrelsAnimatedNineteenth CenturyMilitantRationalismFrench RevolutionContinentalSpiritual Beliefs Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“One thing is certain: those who worked and voted for less government, the very foot soldiers in the conservative revolution, have been deceived. Today, the ideal of limited government has been abandoned by the GOP, and real conservatives find their views no longer matter.” Has BeensRealMatterGovernmentTodayCertainViewsOne ThingFeetRevolutionIdealsSoldierConservativeAbandonedDeceivedLimited GovernmentGop Author:Ron Paul
“The conservative revolution that Reagan helped usher in gained traction because Reagan's central insight - that the liberal welfare state had grown complacent and overly bureaucratic, with Democratic policy makers more obsessed with slicing the economic pie than with growing the pie - contained a good deal of truth.” StatesDealsGrowingEconomicPolicyRevolutionDemocraticConservativeInsightWelfareObsessedMakersPieComplacentWelfare StatePolicy MakersTraction Book:The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
“During his campaign, [Donald] Trump promised the biggest tax cut since Ronald Reagan's conservative revolution in the 1980s.” CuttingRevolutionTrumpTaxesConservativeCampaignsTax Cuts Author:Kelly McEvers
“I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.” MenFirstsLooksMayHelpingMovingSocialStepsTroubleDangerTheoryRevolutionRepublicanInnovationConservativeRefuseFirst StepsConservatismDemocracy In AmericaAnti Conservative Author:Alexis de Tocqueville
“f you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals - if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.” IfsThinkingBelieveHeartSoulGovernmentWould BeTodayDesirePoliticsIndividualI BelieveRevolutionAuthorityBasesConservativeLiberalismDescriptionLibertarianismConservatismHeart And SoulInterferenceIndividual FreedomCentralized Government Author:Ronald Reagan
“But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.” PoliticalChurchRevolutionDisciplineConservativeDenialPermanentRevolutionaryLiberalismConservationRelaxationConservatismWrong ThingsPermanent Things Book:Christianity and Culture Source: Christianity and Culture