A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
I never dared to be radical when young, For fear it would make me conservative when old.
Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.
I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of his day? Jesus Christ.