{"quotes":[{"text":"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives... I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it. Suppose any party, in addition to whatever share it may possess of the ability of the community, has nearly the whole of its stupidity, that party must, by the law of its constitution, be the stupidest party; and I do not see why honorable gentlemen should see that position as at all offensive to them, for it ensures their being always an extremely powerful party . . . There is so much dense, solid force in sheer stupidity, that any body of able men with that force pressing behind them may ensure victory in many a struggle, and many a victory the Conservative party has gained through that power.'John Stuart Mill ( British philosopher, economist, and liberal member of Parliament for Westminster from 1865 to 68 ).","author":"John Stuart Mill","tags":["altruism","conservative","liberal","libertarian","politics","progressive","selfishness"],"id":3527,"author_id":"John+Stuart+Mill"},{"text":"A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.","author":"Leonard Bernstein","tags":["altruism","conservative","government","liberal","libertarian","politics","progressive","selfishness","state"],"id":4565,"author_id":"Leonard+Bernstein"},{"text":"A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["ambition","artist","chance","change","chronological-snobbery","commitment","conservative","consistency","dedication","development","distaste","fear","improvement","liberal","mastery","new","new-age","old","original","perception","perfection","perseverance","persistence","perspective","progression","taste","tradition","understanding","unknown","young"],"id":6685,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"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":"The same people who wear shirts that read “fuck your feelings” and rail against “political correctness” seem to believe that there should be no social consequences for [voting for Trump]. I keep hearing calls for empathy and healing, civility and polite discourse. As if supporting a man who would fill his administration with white nationalists and misogynists is something to simply agree to disagree on.Absolutely not. You don’t get to vote for a person who brags about sexual assault and expect that the women in your life will just shrug their shoulders. You don’t get to play the victim when people unfriend you on Facebook, as if being disliked for supporting a bigot is somehow worse than the suffering that marginalized people will endure under Trump. And you certainly do not get to enjoy a performance by people of color and those in the LGBT community without remark or protest when you enact policies and stoke hatred that put those very people’s lives in danger.Being socially ostracized for supporting Trump is not an infringement of your rights, it’s a reasonable response by those of us who are disgusted, anxious, and afraid. I was recently accused by a writer of “vote shaming” – but there’s nothing wrong with being made to feel ashamed for doing something shameful.","author":"Jessica Valenti","tags":["bigot","bigotry","conservative","democrat","intolerance","liberal","racism","racist","republican","trump"],"id":22945,"author_id":"Jessica+Valenti"},{"text":"What never fails inside the mind of an intellectual never works outside the confines of his head. The world’s stubborn refusal to vindicate the intellectual’s theories serves as proof of humanity’s irrationality, not his own. Thus, the true believer retrenches rather than rethinks; he launches a war on the world, denying reality because it fails to conform to his theories. If intellectuals are not prepared to reconcile theory and practice, then why do they bother to venture outside the ivory tower or the coffeehouse? Why not stay in the world of abstractions and fantasy?","author":"Daniel J. Flynn","tags":["conservative","intellectuals","philosophy","politics"],"id":23388,"author_id":"Daniel+J.+Flynn"},{"text":"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... \u0026 ... Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.–.","author":"John Kenneth Galbraith","tags":["altruism","conservative","liberal","libertarian","politics","progressive","selfishness"],"id":25598,"author_id":"John+Kenneth+Galbraith"},{"text":"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. \u0026It is also in the interests of a tyrant to keep his people poor, so that they may not be able to afford the cost of protecting themselves by arms and be so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for rebellion.","author":"Aristotle","tags":["altruism","conservative","government","liberal","libertarian","politics","progressive","selfishness","state"],"id":28721,"author_id":"Aristotle"},{"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"},{"text":"My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.","author":"Clint Eastwood","tags":["believe","conservative","you "],"id":42915,"author_id":"Clint+Eastwood"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":122,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}