Logo
Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Conservative. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as di

Conservative. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. – Ambrose Bierce

Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Opiate. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
Drugs
Author
Ambrose Bierce
Read Quote

In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
Integrity
Author
Ambrose Bierce
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Conservatism
category

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. – Mark Twain

Category:
Conservatism

The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations. – Henry Kissinger

Category:
Conservatism

The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because its the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained. – Gerda Lerner

Category:
Conservatism

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world — and never will. – Mark Twain

Category:
Conservatism

Random Quotes

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature. – Bodhidharma

Category:
Nature

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want. – Jennifer Aniston

Category:
Art

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch. – Ian Fleming

Category:
Men

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you dont live it, it wont come out of your horn. They teach you theres a boundary line to music. But, man, theres no boundary line to art. – Charlie Parker

Category:
Art