Moral Conservatism Quotes

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced by the superiority of the arguments that are made on the conservative side. I think that's a better way to run a society.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

There are voters out there that a moralistic and populist conservative right might win but a flagrantly hypocritical and ethnonationalist conservatism cannot.

To Barack Obama, if you believe in traditional marriage, you are a homophobe. If you believe men shouldn't go into women's bathrooms and showers, you are a bigot. If you believe the unborn have a right to life, you must hate women.

We're still a sexophobic society, afraid of the wrong things for the wrong reasons.

I think there is a puritanical wind that is blowing. I have never seen such a lack of separation between church and state in America, I don’t believe in God, but if I did I would say that sex is a Godgiven right. Otherwise it’s the end of our species.

When people say 'I'm not a prude, but ...' what they mean is 'I am a prude, and ...'.

You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm against abortion and gay rights, and we have to blow up the world. It's frightening.

That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.

Why are there so many puritans in this country, and why can't the rest of us make them go away?!

Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.

Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.

The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.

In terms of how prudish Americans were in the '40s and '50s, I have absolutely no idea. I do know about the character that I play. And I don't think it's about being prudish. I think it's about trying to balance a sense of control in this man's life.

We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality involved in discharging untested chemicals into the air, ground, and water to alter and harm, to whatever degree, human life and wildlife? As a conservative, I do abhor it.

American society is still puritanical.

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

While liberals appeared to be safely in power, feminists could perhaps afford the luxury of defining Larry Flynt or Roman Polanski as Enemy Number One. Now that we have to cope with Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms, a rethinking of priorities seems in order.

The GOP used to be united on a traditionalist view of social and moral issues.

To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable to certain laws of conventional propriety and honor, has for its object simply the gratification of its appetites, and frowns with quite a conservative air on all new inventions, all untried experiments in iniquity.