Eric Hoffer Quotes About Conservatism

Quotes about: Conservatism

• Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in beliefs, ideas and possessions. The sterile radical, too, is basically conservative. He is afraid to let go of the ideas and beliefs he picked up in his youth lest his life be seen as empty and wasted.

  Eric Hoffer

  Letting Go, Ideas, Society

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

• There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.

  Eric Hoffer

  Marriage, Radicalism, Conservative

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

• The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sap, Orthodoxy, Conservatism

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.4, Harper Collins

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