{"quotes":[{"text":"Conservatives and those on the right are usually willing to settle for thinking themselves correct on political issues; those on the left have always needed to feel not so much that they are correct but that they are also good. Disagree with someone on the right and he is likely to think you obtuse, wrong, sentimental, foolish, a dope; disagree with someone one the left and he is more likely to think you selfish, cold-hearted, a sellout, evil-in league with the devil, he might say, if he didn't think religious terminology too coarse for our secular age. To this day one will hear of people who fell for Communism in a big way let off the hook because they were sincere; if one's heart is in the right place, nothing else matters, even if one's naive opinions made it easier for tyrants to murder millions.","author":"Joseph Epstein","tags":["conservatism","conservatives","government","leftism","liberalism","liberals","opinions","politics","progressives","rightism","secularism"],"id":20369,"author_id":"Joseph+Epstein"},{"text":"The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers.","author":"Slavoj Žižek","tags":["berlin-wall","capitalism","communism","conservatives","hamburgers","marxism"],"id":34150,"author_id":"Slavoj+%C5%BDi%C5%BEek"},{"text":"Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.","author":"Dwight D. Eisenhower","tags":["conservatism","conservatives","democrats","extremism","liberalism","liberals","politics","republicans"],"id":73025,"author_id":"Dwight+D.+Eisenhower"},{"text":"If you ask a conservative for a statement of his political convictions, he may well say that he has none, and that the greatest heresy of modernity is precisely to see politics as a matter of convictions as though one could recuperate, at the level of political purpose, the consoling certainty which once was granted by religious faith. In another sense, however, conservatism does rest in a system of belief, and is opposed as much to the theory as to the practice of socialist and liberal politics.","author":"Roger Scruton","tags":["conservative","conservatives","convictions","liberalism","religion","socialism"],"id":79175,"author_id":"Roger+Scruton"},{"text":"In the old days, a liberal and a conservative (a “dove” and a “hawk,” say) got their data from one of three nightly news programs, a local paper, and a handful of national magazines, and were thus starting with the same basic facts (even if those facts were questionable, limited, or erroneous). Now each of us constructs a custom informational universe, wittingly (we choose to go to the sources that uphold our existing beliefs and thus flatter us) or unwittingly (our app algorithms do the driving for us). The data we get this way, pre-imprinted with spin and mythos, are intensely one-dimensional.","author":"George Saunders","tags":["beliefs","conservatives","data","facts","information","internet","liberals","news","politics","sources","worldview"],"id":143009,"author_id":"George+Saunders"},{"text":"If I'm walking down an American street and anyone darker than a peanut shell approaches, I'll say, 'Hello.' This because, if I don't say it, he or she might think that I'm anxious. Which, of course, I must be, otherwise I'd walk by in silence, just as I do with my fellow Caucasians.Does this make me racist, or simply race conscious? Either way, I'm more afraid of conservatives than I am of black people.","author":"David Sedaris","tags":["conservatives","racism"],"id":151966,"author_id":"David+Sedaris"},{"text":"Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics.","author":"Michelle Malkin","tags":["conservatism","conservatives","identity-politics","liberal","liberals","minority","politics","race"],"id":221266,"author_id":"Michelle+Malkin"},{"text":"According to just about every poll on happiness, people on the Left are generally less happy than conservatives.","author":"Dennis Prager","tags":["conservatives","happiness","leftists"],"id":250070,"author_id":"Dennis+Prager"},{"text":"If we conservatives “of color” refuse to promote the welfare state, unfettered abortion, affirmative action, and massive immigration, we are guilty of “selling out.","author":"Michelle Malkin","tags":["beliefs","conservatism","conservative","conservatives","politics","race"],"id":286690,"author_id":"Michelle+Malkin"},{"text":"In 1959, Vice-President Nixon, speaking to members of California’s Commonwealth Club, was asked if he’d like to see the parties undergo an ideological realignment—the sort that has since taken place—and he replied, “I think it would be a great tragedy . . . If we had our two major political parties divide on what we would call a conservative-liberal line.” He continued, “I think one of the attributes of our political system has been that we have avoided generally violent swings in Administrations from one extreme to the other. And the reason we have avoided that is that in both parties there has been room for a broad spectrum of opinion.” Therefore, “when your Administrations come to power, they will represent the whole people rather than just one segment of the people.","author":"Jeffrey Frank","tags":["conservatives","ideology","liberals","nixon","political-parties","political-system","politics","presidential-administrations"],"id":307855,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Frank"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}