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"The conservative revival cannot be dismissed."
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"Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."
"White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high."
"Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving."
"We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources."
"The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill."
"A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution" the old one."
"I'd like to have a drink with Bill Maher and see how he feels. We were too conservative coming over to Fox from fX, and got ourselves off our best game."
"One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically."
"If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion."
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"Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image."
"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."
"It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family."
"It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life."
"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order."
"The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer."
"Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left."
"The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories."
"The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types."
"When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes."
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