Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
Christopher Lasch
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JOHN BOLTON The trick is to balance core traditional values with economic tribal development.
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ROSS BAKER The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues betw...
EARL BROWDER We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.
RONALD REAGAN This award shows they have done so by upholding the traditional values of the game.
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IZZY KALMAN How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
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JOE CONASON A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in th...
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RULA GHANI The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to she...
IAIN DUNCAN SMITH Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan...
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JEANIENE FROST The senator cleared his throat, uncomfortable. This was probably new to him—the sensation of being...
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BOB MATTHEWS Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
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PATRICK MCHENRY All day long you sit and sew,
Stitch life down for fear it grow,
Stitch life down fo...
EDITH SITWELL Traditional values are big in my life.
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MARGARET MITCHELL The power of social media is it forces necessary change.
ERIK QUALMAN However, the employer is not required to contribute any more of the cost of the HMO than it contribu...
RICHARD KASS It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aim...
BILL WILSON to expose enemies. They include all the old traditional concepts, the irrational systems that obstru...
BA JIN May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.
PHILIP G. ZIMBARDO The black conservatives claim that the decline of values such as patience, deferred gratification, a...
CORNEL WEST Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the w...
ELLEN DEGENERES Life's irony;Some people use the social media to showcase their riches,others to showcase their frie...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The ele...
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LUCY POWELL There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not id...
NARENDRA MODI Why be an ostrich?
MARGARET MITCHELL There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.
D. B. SWEENEY Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
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DENNIS RILEY I have the unique ability to be on the forefront to deal with issues such as traditional values; the...
ED BRYANT Hillary Clinton declared war on families with traditional values long ago. Hillary wants the village...
KATHARINE DEBRECHT Many heterosexual marriages are childless; many with children break up: they are no guarantee that c...
REBECCA SOLNIT This gains him an increasing amount of attention as an authentic voice for social conservatives.
WHIT AYRES The destruction of sacred sites and the killing of young police forces does not concern the American...
HASSAN ROHANI Water flows because it's willing.
MARTY RUBIN Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead.
JIM GENOVESE Don't resist life, flow with it.
JIM GENOVESE Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm.
JIM GENOVESE The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.
MARGARET MITCHELL The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative so...
ANN OAKLEY My goal is to bridge the gap between social media and traditional media.
CAMERON DALLAS Social conservatives have discovered this is an issue you can win on.
DAVID BOAZ Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise ...
ADOLF LOOS Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social orde...
LANCE LOUD Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and p...
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ADAM ERELI The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY I don't think home values will crash -- they will rust, not bust. Demographics have underpinned dema...
RICHARD BERNER At a certain point in their historical lives, social classes become detached from their traditional ...
ANTONIO GRAMSCI She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
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NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
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TROY POLAMALU By what criteria can one decide which of a person's countless beliefs are primitive? The essential f...
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CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
CHRISTOPHER QUILL Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place,...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country whe...
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtes...
CHRISTOPHER RICKS Only the sinner has a right to preach.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you your...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. It requires so
much attention.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to live your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, and
earning.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every tele...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to spend your life
in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is o...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....
CHRISTOPHER MOORE