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«This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.»
Author: Alexander Herzen
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as yet, chest, conservatism, contemporary, denial, extremes, once again, overwhelmed, phases, subsequent, titanic
«Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.»
Author: Dale E. Turner
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Change,
Conservative,
Danger,
Elderly,
Future
| Keywords:
conservatism, justification, painful, reluctant
«Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.»
Author: William E. Gladstone
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
| About:
Conservatism,
Liberalism
| Keywords:
conservatism, distrust, liberalism, prudence, tempered
«The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curse of the world. Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
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burdened, caution, conservatism, conserve, conserved, conserves, conserving, dealt, everlastingly, excessive, fogies, fogy, grandfathers, harp, harping, nevertheless, ossified, ossify, secondhand
«What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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Conservatism
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adherence, conservatism, untried
«RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
conservatism, inject, injected, injecting, injects, radicalism
«Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth. The Conservative»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
affirmative, conservatism, conservative, negative, reform
«The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
conservatism, disputed, two-party
«Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
conservatism, conserve, conserved, conserves, conserving, secondhand
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