{"quotes":[{"text":"If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.","author":"Jonah Goldberg","tags":["conservatism","fascism","government","liberalism","political","politics","socialism"],"id":3780,"author_id":"Jonah+Goldberg"},{"text":"In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.","author":"Montesquieu","tags":["conservatism","government","liberty","republicanism"],"id":11373,"author_id":"Montesquieu"},{"text":"In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order.","author":"Margaret MacMillan","tags":["conservatism","idealism","liberalism","perspective","revolution"],"id":15268,"author_id":"Margaret+MacMillan"},{"text":"The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, and that such rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values.","author":"Theodore J. Kaczynski","tags":["change","conservatism","conservative","culture","democrat","economy","inconsistency","individual","industrialization","liberal","popular-culture","progressivism","reform","republican","society","technology","tradition","traditional","traditional-values"],"id":15911,"author_id":"Theodore+J.+Kaczynski"},{"text":"Conservatives and those on the right are usually willing to settle for thinking themselves correct on political issues; those on the left have always needed to feel not so much that they are correct but that they are also good. Disagree with someone on the right and he is likely to think you obtuse, wrong, sentimental, foolish, a dope; disagree with someone one the left and he is more likely to think you selfish, cold-hearted, a sellout, evil-in league with the devil, he might say, if he didn't think religious terminology too coarse for our secular age. To this day one will hear of people who fell for Communism in a big way let off the hook because they were sincere; if one's heart is in the right place, nothing else matters, even if one's naive opinions made it easier for tyrants to murder millions.","author":"Joseph Epstein","tags":["conservatism","conservatives","government","leftism","liberalism","liberals","opinions","politics","progressives","rightism","secularism"],"id":20369,"author_id":"Joseph+Epstein"},{"text":"But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics.","author":"David Frum","tags":["conservatism","david-frum","politics","post-truth-politics","tea-party-movement"],"id":25170,"author_id":"David+Frum"},{"text":"Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.","author":"Robertson Davies","tags":["know","conservatism","very "],"id":25272,"author_id":"Robertson+Davies"},{"text":"Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.","author":"Richard Rohr","tags":["adaptability","change","conservatism","religion","status-quo"],"id":32098,"author_id":"Richard+Rohr"},{"text":"The Left had to go searching for a new civil-rights struggle with which to cram conservatives back into their “victimizer” cubbyhole. The Left now pushes against civil rights in its ignorant search for the new struggle. There was, however, one problem: All the good civil-rights issues have been dealt with already. And so the Left, which focuses all of its efforts on social issues, was relegated to pushing crime-increasing myths about the evils of cops; the celebrities were forced to pretend that men peeing next to women was the next great Martin Luther King, Jr.–style struggle.","author":"Ben Shapiro","tags":["conservatism","left-wing","leftwing","politics","victimeattitude","victimpolitics"],"id":33393,"author_id":"Ben+Shapiro"},{"text":"The data on the economic utility of artists is really, really strong. Artists and entrepreneurs are the same people...And of course entrepreneurs are the people who provide all of the vision for the entire capitalist system. They're absolutely necessary.But conservatives tend to be so blind to art that they can't even see that the artists are the ones who drive the economy forward!","author":"Jordan Peterson","tags":["art","artist","artists","arts","capitalism","conservatism","conservative","creative","creativity","economy"],"id":36532,"author_id":"Jordan+Peterson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":107,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}