Conservatism quotes Flashcards
Hobbes quotes
“The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.”
“How could a state be governed… If every individual remained free to obey or not obey the law”
“Human life in the state of nature will be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short”
“It is not wisdom but authority that makes the law”
Burke quotes
“A partnership between those who are living, those are dead and those who are to be born”
“Fallible, not terrible”
“We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle which nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age and on account of those from whom they are descended.”
“The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who are remained neutral in a time of moral crisis”
“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its own conservation”
“Liberty does not exist in the absence of mortality”
Oakshott quotes
“To be conservative… is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded…”
“The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better”
“Fragile and fallible”
“What has stood the test of time is good and must not be lightly cast aside”
“Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in the process of learning”
Rand quotes
“Man—every man—is an end in himself.”
“Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.”
“Atomistic individualism”
“Virtue of selfishness”
Nozick quotes
“No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified”
“You can’t satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied”
“Taxation of earnings of labor is on par with forced labor”
“Instead of trying to prove your opponent wrong, try to see in what sense he might be right.”
