"In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress."

Previous Quote

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