We'll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow older.
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One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.
The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.
I shall not grow conservative with age.
It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road.
The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.
People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.
I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
Just as I got older, I think I've become more and more conservative.